Self Quotes

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

Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac

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

Lord Tennyson

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles de Gaulle

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Trieu Thi Trinh

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide.

Steffen Francisco

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

George Bernard Shaw

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Albert Camus

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

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

Samuel Johnson

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".

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news - writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae".

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self - Distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

Author Unknown

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Hermann Hesse

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Seneca

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Hasidic Saying

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.

Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus, On the Universe

Of all afflictions, the worst is self - Contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

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

Hellen Kelle

An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.

Unknown

It is the highest form of self - Respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Richard Whately

Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.

Maitri Upanishads