Self Quotes
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.Author Unknown
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.Washington Irving
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.Alvin Toffle
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
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
It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.Real Live Preache
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.Russell Bake
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.Johann Kaspar Lavate
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.Samuel Johnson
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.Gustave Flaubert, 1, 911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.Alfred Adle
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self - Seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.Karol Newlin
In summer, the song sings itself.William Carlos Williams
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.Robert Louis Stevenson
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.Anthony Perkins
If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.John Newton
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
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.Thornton
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self - Despiser.Friedrich Nietzsche
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.Frederick Saunders
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.Jean Anouilh
One of the self - Authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise.John L. Casteel
Meetings are an addictive, highly self - Indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.Alain van der Heide
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.George Bernard Shaw
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods - - In order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.Saint Basil
Self - Development is a higher duty than self - Sacrifice.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...CIA Manual
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - - And less trouble. - Speech, 1906.Mark Twain
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.Woodrow Wilson
