Self Quotes

Ursula le guin - you must come to terms with your wholeself. the...
Thaddeus golas - inside yourself or outside, you never have to...
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.
T. T. Munge
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
Evelyn Underhill
The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses.
Juvenal
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
Herbert Butterfield
I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.
Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Betty friedan - it is easier to live through someone else than to...
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates, Regimen
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Thomas Hobbes
The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.
Stephen Butler Leacock
Formal education will earn you a living, self - Education make you a fortune.
Unknown
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle, Politics
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
Henri Frdric Amiel
It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right.
Unknown
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
Tom Robbins
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butle
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Thomas Carlyle
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
Chinese prove
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.
Francois de Fenelon
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
Hal Borland
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.
Clay Aiken, Teen People
God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
African Prove
Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.
Martin Luthe
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Brenda Ueland
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
Judith Rossne
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.
Joseph Sobran
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
The Talmud
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers