Self Quotes

Of all the self - Fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

English Prove

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Mary Montagu

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese.

Edith Sitwell

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Will Rogers

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Dag Hammarskjld

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Sir Winston Churchill

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

Vernon Howard

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

To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.

Francis Crawford

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Hellen Kelle

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Know thyself.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Dag Hammarskjld

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.

Samuel Johnson

Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Arthur W. Radford

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

James J. Roche

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Woody Harrelson

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

Horace, Epistles

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.

Peter Brodie

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

I define comfort as self - Acceptance. When we finally learn that self - Care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

Jennifer Louden

Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

Whitney Young

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Karl Kraus

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Mille

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world - wide depression all by myself.

Herbert Clark Hoove