Self Quotes

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Queen Christina

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

B. A. Billingsly

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawrence

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.

Boileau

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself... The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

Tom Gates

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

Sufi Prove

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Georges Pomidou

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.

Erich Frohm

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

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

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

English Prove

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglas

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.

Axel Monthe

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers Love, nightmare - Like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers.

William S. Gilbert

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - Serving wealth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education is life itself.

John Dewey

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Carlos Fuentes

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)

The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurbe

One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

Sigmund Freud

Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Bryce Courtenay

Practice yourself what you preach.

Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

G. C. Lichtenberg

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

George Herbert

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus