Self Quotes

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

Francis Quarles

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Buddha

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self - Distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

Mortification from a self - Strength, carried on by ways of self - Invention, unto the end of a self - Righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

John Owen

The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

Hazlitt

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Mortimer Adle

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.

Vincent Van Gogh

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexande

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Any ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Paul Hawken

Self - Loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self - Neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Carlos Fuentes

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles De Gaulle

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self - Expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

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

Dag Hammarskjld

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman

Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.

Blade

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

Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)

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

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

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

Andy Warhol

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

Danish prove

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw

Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Lord Tennyson

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

Eustache Descamps