Self Quotes
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
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.Jane Wagne
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.Sidney Madwed
On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.Isha McKenzie - Mavinga
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.Susan B. Anthony
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
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.Nicholson Bake
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.Benjamin Franklin
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
Help thyself, and God will help thee.Jean de La Fontaine
Self - Denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.George Bernard Shaw
I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.John Waters
To find yourself, think for yourself.Socrates, The Apology
First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.Francis Crawford
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.Lucille Ball
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.Lord Chesterfield
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.Marilyn Ferguson
Washington is like a self - Sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.Eric Pio
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.Charles Austin Beard, historian
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.Hindustani Prove
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills.Kahlil Gibran
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
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man and without this all other education is good for nothing.R. D. Hitchcock
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.R. D. Laing
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Charles Buxton
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?Jane Austen
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
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
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
