Self Quotes
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.Anon.
We are survival machines - Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.Richard Dawkings:, "The Selfish Gene".
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Richard Milhous Nixon
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.Oprah Winfrey
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.Ralph Waldo Emerson
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia Woolf
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
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.Marlene Dietrich
I have lost the half of myself? a soul for which mine was made.Voltaire
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.Thomas Carlyle
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.Robert F. Bennett
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.Iris Murdoch
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli
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
Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.Admiral Hyman Rickove
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.Alan Stewart Paton
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.Cicero
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.La Rochefoucauld
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.William Franklin Billy Graham
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
My main hope for myself is to be where I am.Woody Harrelson
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.Lord Byron
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.Karol Newlin
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.Jim Rohn
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
