Self Quotes

Albert einstein - when i examine myself and my methods of thought,...
Jean francois revel - clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for...
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
Don Marquis
Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self - Gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations.
I Ching
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Charles Schwa
Epictetus - know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself...
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.
Albert Einstein
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
The reliance on property is... the want of self - Reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property... Essays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
Seneca
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
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
Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct.
Blade
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Seneca
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles De Gaulle
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
Robert Solow
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
Nathaniel Brandon
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications
To be nobody - But - Yourself - - In a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - - Means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E e cummings
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Marilyn Ferguson
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
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
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
Chinua Achebe
A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo DaVinci
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.
Eugene E. Brussell
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitze
Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.
Ernest Hemingway
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self - Examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self - Righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik W. Van Loon
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
Eli Khamarov