Self Quotes
A friend is a present you give yourself.Robert Louis Stevenson
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.Desiderius Erasmus
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.Joel Hawes
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.Abraham Lincoln
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.Janet Fitch, "White Oleander".
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.Paul Tillich
A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility.Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.Charles Dudley Warne
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.A. A. Milne
I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.William Harvey
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.Tom Blai
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self - Complacent is erroneous - - On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.W. Somerset Maugham
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.C. Wright Mills
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.William Shakespeare
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.Anna Freud
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.David Viscott
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
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.Voltaire
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.Thomas a Kempis
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.Amy Grant
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
Shun praise. Praise leads to self - Delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.H Hahn Blavatsky
Do definite good first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.John Lancaster Spalding
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune.Samuel Smiles
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.Anais Nin
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.Sir Richard F. Burton
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.George Bernard Shaw
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
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.Nick Richardson
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
