Self Quotes
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.Michel de Montaigne
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self - Confidence and your self - Doubt.Kahlil Gibran
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit.Elizabeth II
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.Sarah Bernhardt
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.Isaac Bashevis Singe
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment - - But if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. A Tramp Abroad, 1880.Mark Twain
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.Jean Anouilh
A self - Balancing, 28 - Jointed adaptor - Based biped; an electro - Chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62, 000 miles of capillaries....R. Buckminster Fulle
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
Formal education will make you a living self - Education will make you a fortune.Jim Rohn
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.John Stuart Mill
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed... the president himself would be killed by it.John Dean
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.Juvenal
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.Mark Twain
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.Mae West
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.I Ching
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.Dag Hammarskjld
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.Benjamin Disraeli
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
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.Robert Fritz
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.Bernard M. Baruch
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.Marcus Garvey
He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed.Solomon Short
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.Karl Kraus
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.Lao - Tzu
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.Commitment To Excellence
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists".
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.Jim Morrison
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.Judith Rossne
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.Shirley MacLaine
