Self Quotes
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.Lyman Beeche
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.Mary Hemingway
Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.Unknown
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.Unknown
That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.Tom Gates
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.Benjamin Franklin
The self - Explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.Elias Canetti
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.Francis Maitland Balfou
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
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
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.Johnny Carson, people magazine special issue
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.Willmott
But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel - Fed dogs myself - - You know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.Charles E. Wilson
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.Paul Tillich
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.Doris Lessing
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.George Bernard Shaw
Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.Helen Kelle
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.Anonymous
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.Bertrand Russell
I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.Jennifer Louden
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.Marcus Aurelius
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.Franz Kafka
Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.The Divine Pymande
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.Robert F. Bennett
In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.Robert Byrne
