Self Quotes

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self - Righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchison

Self - Conceit may lead to self - Destruction.

Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - - At yourself.

Ethel Barrymoore

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

Ivon Petrovich Pavlov

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Albert Camus

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - And be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beeche

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

Kristin Hunter, O Magazine, November 2003

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Marvin Gaye

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Nancy Friday

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

John Milton

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

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

Selma Lagerloef

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Pythagorus

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Queen Christina

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

Author Unknown

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Proverbs 137 Bible

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Helena Rubinstein

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3

Maturity beings to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John MacNaughton

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Alfred A. Montapert

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Bokonon

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Richard Needham

The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Andre Maurois

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 you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.

Emerson

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

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde