Self Quotes

Garry trudeau - america: the only country in the world where...
Robert louis stevenson - a friend is a present you give yourself....
Jacob bronowski, 1976 - the most wonderful discovery made by scientists...
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone
First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.
Konrad Adenauer, 1876 - 1967
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Erich Fromm
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
Karl Kraus
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffe
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Deepak Chopra
I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
Al Jaffee
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.
Seneca
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.
Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
Hesiod
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self - Solicitude is the enemy of well - Being.
John Updike
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - - Great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn
By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.
Grenville Kleise
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
Dr. Seuss
Never feel self - Pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Froude
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Masterlinck
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Tom Blai
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
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
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
John Newton
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
Napolean Hill
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson