Self Quotes
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.Hasidic Saying
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
A friend is a second self.Aristotle
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.La Bruyere
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.Greville
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...Trieu Thi Trinh
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.Raymond Hull
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own - Goal scored by the human race against itself.Anne
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.John Cage
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.Sarah Bernhardt
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.Socrates
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.Robert Burton
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.Andrew Grove, Co - Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!Amelia Earhart
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.Giovanni Ruffini
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.Henry Ward Beeche
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.Alan Ashley - Pitt
Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.Ivon Petrovich Pavlov
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.Aaron Copland
Respect yourself and others will respect you.Confucius
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
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
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.Nicolas Boileau
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.Michel de Montaigne
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.Samuel Butle
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.Arthur Brisbane
