Self Quotes
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.Baltasar Gracian
There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.Albert Einstein
The only thing to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.Wystan Hugh Auden
Human nature is not of itself vicious.Thomas Paine
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.Earl of Chesterfield
To expect defeat is nine - Tenths of defeat itself.Francis Crawford
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.George Santayana
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.Leszezynski Stanislaus
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.Gerald R. Ford, Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.Friedrich Nietzsche
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.Benjamin Disraeli
True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.Hindustani Prove
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.Joseph Addison
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.Beatrix Potte
Happy is he who can give himself up.Naguib Mahfouz
It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.Real Live Preache
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
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
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.Thomas Adams
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.John Stuart Mill
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.Thomas Paine
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.William Shakespeare
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.Alexander Chase
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.William Cowpe
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.Peter McArthu
Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.Janet Fitch, "White Oleander".
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.Spanish Prove
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
No man is demolished but by himself.Richard Bently
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
