Self Quotes

Charles austin beard, historian - you need only reflect that one of the best ways...
Jennifer louden - i define comfort as self - acceptance. when we...
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, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
English Prove
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
Charles de Gaulle
What a searching preacher of self - Command is the varying phenomenon of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - They bear no fruit.
Francis Marion
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Henry david thoreau - however mean your life is, meet it and live it:...
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
Believe in something larger than yourself.
Barbara Bush
The world itself is the will to power - And nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - And nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power".
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.
Sir Robert Hutchinson
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
John Milton
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi - Strauss
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
Dag Hammarskjld
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self - Respect.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
George Bernard Shaw
The self - Controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace.
Bhagavad Gita
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a luxury in self - Reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.
Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
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
No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.
Amos Bronson Alcott
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.
Maitri Upanishads
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.
Lao - Tzu
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will.
Thomas a Kempis
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so.
Unknown
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates, The Apology
It took me twenty years of studied self - Restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
George Bernard Shaw
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian