Self Quotes
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.Benjamin Spock
I speak BASIC to clients, 1 - 2 - 3 to management, and mumble to myself.Anon.
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.Stephen Nachmanovitch
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self - Expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?Robert Cecil Day Lewis
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.Whitney Young
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.Kurt Vonnegut
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self - Knowledge if you explore them.Marilyn Ferguson
Where there is a will there is a way, is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - To determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.Samuel Smiles
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
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
No man ever listened himself out of a job.Calvin Coolidge
I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved, pg. 336
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
By constant self - Discipline and self - Control you can develop greatness of characte.Grenville Kleise
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.Publilius Syrus
I don? t really do New Year? s resolutions because I don? t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you? ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.Clay Aiken
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.Orison Swett Marden
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
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.Greville
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
There is a certain impertinance in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.Anatole France
What is life? It is a 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
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to - Day for to - Morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.Miguel de Cervantes
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self - Restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.Author Unknown
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.Samuel Johnson
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self - Enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another? s values.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.Horace, Epistles
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
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
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.La Bruyere
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.Confucious
Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.Alain van der Heide
The spirit is the true self.Marcus Tullius Cicero
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855
Forgive thyself little, and others much.Leighton
