Self Quotes
In order to preserve your self - Respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.Robert Byrne
A patient man is one who can put up with himself.Author Unknown
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.Roland Barthes, Esprit
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.Matthew Arnold
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.Sir Thomas More
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.Thomas Jefferson
Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.Jacob Neusne
Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.George Steine
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.Jane Wagne
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
Self - Pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.Helen Kelle
Know thyself.Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.William Hazlitt
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you... and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.The Talmud
Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.Stephen Leacock
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.Akhenaton
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.Seneca
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.George Orwell
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.Winston Churchill, Quoted in: Irving Klotz, Bending perception, a book review, Nature, 1996, Volume 379, p 412
The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.Willmott
Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it.Claire Huchet Bishop
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.Robert Ingersoll
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.Jean Anouilh
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.Buddha
Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.Zen Prove
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1420
Greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.George Bernard Shaw
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.Unknown
