Self Quotes
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
Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.James J. Roche
The spirit is the true self.Marcus Tullius Cicero
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - Every day begin the task anew.Saint Francis de Sales
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.James A. Froude
He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.Proverbs 1532 Bible
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.John Mitchell Mason
Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.Dr. Karl A. Menninge
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.The Hitopadesa
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.Pope John Paul II
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.Woody Harrelson
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.Charles Schwa
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!Amelia Earhart
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.Michel de Montaigne
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.Charles Dudley Warne
Know thyself, said the old philosopher, improve thyself, saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - - It hits all by itself.Bruce Lee
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.Vince Lombardi
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel de Montaigne
The man who fights for his fellow - Man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.Clarence Darrow
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
There is always someone worse off than yourself.Aesop
Of all afflictions, the worst is self - Contempt.Berthold Auerbach
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.Sarah Bernhardt
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.John Waters
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe Very wise is he that can know himself.Geoffrey Chauce
