Self Quotes

He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

Thomas Adams

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhaue

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

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 opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

Marcel Proust

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.

Anais Nin, House of Incest

Self - Respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

H. L. Mencken

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Hesiod

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.

John Mitchell Mason

Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.

Lewis Lew Wallace

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Herbert Mitgang

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Matthew 2311, 12 Bible

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Pythagorus

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

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

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Author Unknown

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)

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

John Ruskin

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Joel Hawes

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Aubrey Menen

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.

Jesse Louis Jackson

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

Vernon Howard

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Asto

Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.

Hakim Jami