Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

The truth about myself? I'm obstinate, self-assured, ambitious and sloppy. I think I lead a quite normal life, certainly with five hours of trainig per… — Unknown Author
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. — Jean Paul
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness. — Max Lucado
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish… — Chris Evert
It is the hardest thing in the world to be a good thinker without being a good self examiner. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Who will adhere to him that abandons himself? — Philip Sidney
Truly, this world can get on without us, if we would but think so. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is best for people is what they do for themselves. — Benjamin Franklin
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself. — Benjamin Whichcote
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. — George D. Prentice
Every man is of importance to himself. — Samuel Johnson
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. — Samuel Johnson
If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle. — Sholom Aleichem
We are all mortals, and each is for himself. — Moliere
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation. — Unknown Author
I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a… — Erma Bombeck
How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter… — B. C. Forbes
There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no… — Matthew Henson
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. — George P. Baker
Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,… — J M Coetzee

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