Self Quotes
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.Mark
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.Francis Quarles
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.George John Whyte - Melville
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self - Righteousness - - Each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - - Each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Herbert Butterfield
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
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
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.Matthew Arnold
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.Mack R. Douglas
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.Foka Gomez
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self - Sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.John Foster Dulles
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self - Knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.Benjamin Disraeli
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.Harry Firestone
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.John Stuart Mill
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.Henri Frdric Amiel
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - And thus make yourself indispensable.Andre Gide
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.Robert Collie
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.Thomas a Kempis
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.William Arthur Ward
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself.Clay Aiken, Teen People
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.Sylvia Plath, The Bell Ja
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.Kahlil Gibran
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.George Bernard Shaw
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.Benjamin Jowett
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.Israel Salante
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.Buddha
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
