Self Quotes
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.Hazlitt
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurbe
Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.H Hahn Blavatsky
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.Author Unknown
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
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.Miguel de Cervantes
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5, 000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself.Steve Prefontaine
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.George Washington Allston
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.Alfred North Whitehead
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.Charlie Chaplin
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.Shawnee Indian Chant
When the reviews are bad, I tell myself that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.Liberace
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.D. L. Moody
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoi
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.Sir Winston Churchill
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.Paul Valery
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.Kyle Chandle
It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.Epictetus, Enchiridion
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.Alec Waugh
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
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.Charles Dickens
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.Doris Lessing
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.Albert Einstein
The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.Marcel Proust
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self - Conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under - Value them.Henry James
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self - Evident.Arthur Schopenhaue
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.Meryl Streep
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
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
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
