Self Quotes

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - That is myself.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Mary Cholmondeley

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Niels Henrik David Boh

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

James J. Roche

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Jennifer Aniston

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Robert Browning

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self - Addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories".

The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.

Stephen Butler Leacock

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

Peter Alcantara

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Sir Francis Bacon

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.

Haitian Prove

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

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

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.

Adel Bestavros

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

Mark Twain

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Aldous Huxley

A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.

Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Samuel Johnson

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Saying