Thyself Quotes · Page 8

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the…

— Baal Shem Tov

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

— Rob Brezsny

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

— William Penn

Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage…

— Patrick Henry

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

— Joseph Addison

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

— Rumi

Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or what is worse, be left by it? Why dost thou load…

— Abraham Cowley

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have…

— Miguel de Cervantes

When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess…

— Francis Quarles

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a…

— Francis Quarles

Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine…

— Marcus Aurelius

Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to…

— Marcus Aurelius

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

— Walter Raleigh

“Conquer thyself, till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to…

— Anonymous

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

— Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little,…

— Leighton Meester

Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]

— George Herbert

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

— Menander

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

— Confucius

In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in…

— Thomas a Kempis

Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good,…

— Matthew Arnold

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

— Bahá'u'lláh

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good…

— Max Muller

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

— Charles Spurgeon

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one…

— Thomas Browne

“If you don't know what you want, others will want you for what they know! You must know yourself!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined…

— Jules Verne

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

— Francis Quarles

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the…

— Saint John Chrysostom

O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and…

— Nicodemus

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor…

— Charles Darwin

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

— William Gurnall

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens…

— William Shakespeare

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

— Marcus Aurelius