Self Quotes

Marcus aurelius antoninus, meditations - how much time he gains who does not look to see...
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinge
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
The Talmud
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!
Amelia Earhart
The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of an endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Unknown - it is impossible to better yourself if you do not...
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.
John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Every job is a self - Portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
Commitment To Excellence
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carte
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.
Omar Khayym
Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self - Important.
Korean Prove
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Prove
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech Prove
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Kelle
The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.
Jeanne Moreau
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.
Emerson
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide - Sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
Homer, The Iliad
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoi
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Sir Francis Bacon
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mohandas Ghandi
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
Michel de Montaigne