Self Quotes
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.Bertrand Russell
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.Thomas Jefferson
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.Jane Wagne
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.Booth Tarkington
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.Sir Winston Churchill
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.Samuel Johnson
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.Niccolo Machiavelli
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.Charles Baudelaire
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2002
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.Miles Davis
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
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben Franklin
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.Plato
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.James A. Garfield
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.Dr.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.Lord Acton
Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.Joe Clark
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....Richard Bach
For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.Sir Winston Churchill
Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.Unknown
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.Samuel Johnson
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.Stephen Vincent Benet
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.Baltasar Gracian
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.Leib Lazarow
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.Albert Camus
