Self Quotes

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

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

James Stephens

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang - Tzu, The Great Supreme

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Thomas Fulle

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Jane Austen

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

G. K. Chesterton

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - A hoax fabricated by poets for their self - Importance.

Jean Anouilh

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thomas Jefferson

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Nancy Asto

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Roger Banniste

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Socrates

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

Cicero

Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Earl of Chesterfield

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus

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

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

John Lancaster Spalding

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.

Carl R. Rogers

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Sebastien - Roch Nicolas

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Stephen King

I still have a lot to learn - About the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Britney Spears

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

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

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.

John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981

Man is a make - Believe animal - He is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

William Hazlitt

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butle

Self - Respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self - Love.

Lewis Lew Wallace

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

C. C. Colton