Self Quotes

Voltaire - true greatness consists in the use of a powerful...
Saint john chrysostom, letter to olympia - no one can harm the man who does himself no wrong....
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
Lord Herbert
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Uta Hagan
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Joseph Addison
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward in my actions and not from them.
Hugh Prathe
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Lord Tennyson
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
Edward Gibbon
I have impeached myself by resigning.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard feynman, caltech commencement address, 1974 - the first principle is that you must not fool...
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to - Day be uppermost.
Confucius
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
Robert A. Heinlein
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
Marcus Garvey
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles De Gaulle
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
Maxwell Maltz
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John Morley
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
John MacNaughton
Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.
Shirley MacLaine
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Deepak Chopra
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Confucius
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Battone
What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.
Henrik Ibsen
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime.
Virgil
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
Peter da Silva
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.
Epictetus, Enchiridion