Self Quotes
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.Thornton
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.Thomas Huxley
What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.Henrik Ibsen
A friend is a second self.Aristotle
When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.Unknown
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.G. Stanley Hall
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self - Concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.S Hayakawa
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.J. Krishnamarti
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
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.John MacNaughton
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self - Esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.Fritz Perls
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.John Milton, Dr. Faustus
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.Miguel de Cervantes
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.Anon.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.Kahlil Gibran
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.Confucius
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.Thomas Fulle
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.African Prove
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.Charles Baudelaire
When solving a panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.Peter van der Linden
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.Amy Lowell
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.The Talmud
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.Michel de Montaigne
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.John W. Gardne
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.Mary Daly
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.Michel de Montaigne
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.Robert Burton
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - Something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.Charlotte Bronte
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.Lao Tzu
