Self Quotes

He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.

Epicurus

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Publilius Syrus

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

Hietzsche

Self - Confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

N. B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8

Always be a first - Rate version of yourself, instead of a second - Rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Chinese Prove

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

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

No really great man ever thought himself so.

William Hazlitt

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Sir Thomas More

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulities or you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Battone

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

Nicholson Bake

As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

Elija Lovejoy

Keep thy religion to thyself.

George Carlin

I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.

Anon.

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

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Welsh Prove

Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.

Betty Naomi Friedan

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Frank Crane

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

The Talmud

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.

Jeanne Moreau

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

Garth Brooks, Country Music

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Miguel de Cervantes

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