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Self Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
- Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies…
- I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
- You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the…
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most…
- self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...
- I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself…
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