Self Quotes
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.Cynthia Heimel
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.Mark Twain
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self - Love.Francois de Fenelon
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
A friend is a second self.Aristotle
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him if stronger, spare thyself.William Shakespeare
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.Max Born
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.Seneca
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.David Gerrold
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.G. Stanley Hall
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
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
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.Jalal ud - Din Rumi
The worst of all deceptions is self - Deception.Saul Bellow
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.Jean Francois Revel
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.Ralph Nade
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self - Absorbed.Leo C. Rosten
Just what is it that America stands for If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.Woodrow Wilson
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.Chinua Achebe
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Ashley Montagu
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.Jessamyn West
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.Auguste Rodin
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
