Self Quotes
Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.Sri Madhava
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.Chinese Prove
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.Theodore Isaac Rubin
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.Voltaire
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.Marguerite de Valois
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self - Respect.Theodore Parke
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.Aldous Huxley
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.Mark Caine
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.Mark Twain
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.Sue S. Taylo
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.The Talmud
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.Peter da Silva
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.Bernard Iddings Bell
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self - Respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.Thomas Huxley
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.George Sand
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.Publilius Syrus
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.American Indian Prove
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.M. C. Esche
This above all to thine own self be true.William Shakespeare
Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.Michel de Montaigne
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.Robert Browning
Forgive thyself little, and others much.Leighton
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.Salvador Dali
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...Samuel Smiles
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.Oscar Levant
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.George Bernard Shaw
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.C. C. Colton
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.Daniel J. Boorstin
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
