Self Quotes
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.John W. Gardne
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.Charles De Gaulle
The only gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.Silius Italicus
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.Unknown
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.Henry Louis Mencken
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.Cicero
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.Charlotte Bronte
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.Martin Luther King Jr.
Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.Daniel J. Boorstin
She had learned the self - Deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.Norman Douglas
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.Roscoe Snowden
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.Emerson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Sun - Tzu
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.Samuel Johnson
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.Juvenal
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.Buddha
To establish true self - Esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.Denis Watley
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.Julian the Apostate
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - - And you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Phillips Feynman
A friend is, as it were, a second self.Cicero, De Amicitia
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self - Control is the rule.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.W. Somerset Maugham
I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.Jose Ortega y Gasset
He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.Thomas Fulle
