Self Quotes

Barbara burrow - a friend is somebody you want to be around when...
Nelson mandela - there is nothing like returning to a place that...
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Alan Ashley - Pitt
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Theresa
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.
Korean Prove
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Robert Anson Heinlein
I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - As a man shoots himself.
H. L. Mencken
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
Ursula Le Guin
Herbert clark hoove - once upon a time my political opponents honored...
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.
Sir Robert Hutchinson
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
George Santayana
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.
Valerie Polakow
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.
Julius Irving
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Cynthia Ozick
God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.
Claude Louis Hector de Villars
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
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
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield
I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.
Voltaire
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Robert Cecil Day Lewis
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Cicero, De Amicitia
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
Joseph Brodsky
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Joseph Addison
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
John Ballantine Gough
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Samuel Johnson
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
John Updike
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton