Self Quotes
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.Mortimer Adle
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.Joseph Farrell
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.Martin Luthe
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.George Sarton, History of Science
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Proposal to reform welfare programs.Richard Milhous Nixon
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.Albert Einstein
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
It is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Self - Esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.Nathaniel Branden
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.Richard Milhous Nixon
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.Robert Anson Heinlein
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.Liberace
The man who fights for his fellow - Man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.Clarence Darrow
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.Anna Jameson
An educated man... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.Alan Simpson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.Cary Grant
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.Cicero
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.William Cobbett
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.Charles Schwa
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
The self is not something ready - Made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.John Dewey
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
When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.Julia T. Alvarez
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene
People who imagine themselves to be self - Made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.Richard Russo
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.Aldous Huxley
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.Johann von Goethe
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.Dr. Seuss
It is by no means self - Evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.Thomas Elliot
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.Thomas Szasz
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.Marshal Tito
