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Self Quotes by Mark Twain
- The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had…
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly…
- It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
- Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will…
- What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
- It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.
- Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
- As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is…
- An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
- If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day…
- Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was…
- Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric…
- I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years…
- Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
- It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in…
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,…
- It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is…
- A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take…
- What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- It is the policy of the Indian government: We can lament the lack of talent in the country because it is easier… — Mak_786
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden