Self Quotes

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Samuel johnson - no man will be a sailor who has contrivance...
James thurbe - the wit makes fun of other persons the satirist...
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Pythagoras
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
The Talmud
Respect yourself most of all.
Pythagorus
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.
Jacob Bigelow
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
Eleanor roosevelt - it is not fair to ask of others what you are...
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
Matthew Arnold
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No really great man ever thought himself so.
William Hazlitt
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Joel Hawes
The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of the universe, and the Spirit of the universe in the Spirit of peace.
Maitri Upanishads
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
Nick Richardson
Self - Sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.
Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.
Korean Prove
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
Woody Allen
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Saint John Chrysostom, Letter to Olympia
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
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sidney Madwed
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
William R Allen
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.
Lewis Lew Wallace
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Jalal ud - Din Rumi
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Charles De Gaulle
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
Anonymous
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.
Clay Aiken
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
R. D. Laing