Self Quotes

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhaue

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.

Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.

Emerson

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - - It hits all by itself.

Bruce Lee

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.

Axel Monthe

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Arthur Baldwin

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

Bertolt Brecht

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Barbara Bush

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath - Breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it... To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands.

Darius Ogden Mills

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

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

English Prove

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Lord Chesterfield

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful

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

The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

John Dewey

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.

Vincent Van Gogh

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.

Silius Italicus

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Jane Wyman

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann von Goethe

Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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

Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare