Self Quotes

Susan sontag - the past itself, as historical change continues...
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
William Baziotes
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Georges Pomidou
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.
Korean Prove
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Matthew 2311, 12 Bible
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
George santayana - to be an american is of itself almost a moral...
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
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
Eli Khamarov
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
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.
Tom Stoppard
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Timothy Leary
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Robert Anson Heinlein
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Theresa
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
George Gurdjieff
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.
Jesse Louis Jackson
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
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
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
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Descamps
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.
Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
Felix Adle
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
Dr. Seuss
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John W. Gardne
If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway.
Mother Theresa
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.
Haitian Prove
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.
Leib Lazarow
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Prove
Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.
Hakim Jami
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