Self Quotes

None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Muhammad

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful

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

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self - Praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

American Prove

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Dag Hammarskjld

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel

In jealousy there is more of self - Love, than of love to another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I was never less alone than while by myself.

Edward Lawrence Gibson

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is easier than self - Deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self - Governing people.

Woodrow Wilson

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self - Conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus, Discourses

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butle

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.

John Dewey

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961

The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Thomas a Kempis

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance.

Jean Iris Murdoch

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John MacNaughton

One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.

John L. Casteel

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei