Self Quotes
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.Henry Taylo
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.Mark Twain
Many politicians lay it down as a self - Evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Lord Macaulay
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
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
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
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.Rabindranath Tagore
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.James Arthur Baldwin
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.William Shakespeare
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.Seneca
He is most cheated who cheats himself.Danish Prove
When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt.Henry J. Kaise
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.Hietzsche
Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.Judy Garland
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.Harry S Truman
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.Sri Madhava
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.Bertrand Russell
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.Buddha
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.Jean Iris Murdoch
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.Richard Milhous Nixon
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.Anais Nin
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.Marvin Gaye
When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.Thomas Adams
No man is wise enough by himself.Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus
