Self Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.

Fred Allen

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be.... Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilfred Peterson, This Week (Oct. 1, 1961)

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Hunter S. Thompson

For myself I am an optimist - It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea - Shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.

Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing - Stock.

Miguel de Cervantes

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

Do you know what a pessimist is A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung - Hill croaking and squeaking for our sakes was the world created.

Julian the Apostate

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Bertrand Russell

Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Bette Midle

What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self - Respect, and the courage of conviction.

David L Boren

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Jane Wagne

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - Bread and circuses!

Juvenal, Satires

The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking - Glass.

Nicolas Boileau

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full - On metamorphosis.

Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitze

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

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self - Restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask.

Jim Rohn

He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.

Friedrich Neitzsche

I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

Bernard M. Baruch

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself - - Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being.

Hakim Jami

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

Marshal Tito

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle, Politics