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Self Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
- The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
- A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
- Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
- It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however…
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
- I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
- First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
- Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster