Self Quotes
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.Abbe Guillaume Raynal
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.Charles Baudelaire
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.Leo Tolstoy
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.Cathleen Douglas
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.Barbara Burrow
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self - Satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.John Wooden
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?Author Unknown
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.Josh Billings
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.John Mui
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that, without very much bloodshed, it might be done.John Brown, last words in a written note given to his jailer, Dec. 2, 1859
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.Maxwell Maltz
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
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.Nelson Mandela
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.Thomas Hobbes
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.Alan Watts
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self - Confidence.Robert Frost
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
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.Henri Bergson
He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be.Pierre Corneille
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself".
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.Werner Heisenberg
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.Daniel J. Boorstin
