Self Quotes

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to ...

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do some...

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-manage...

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we ...

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

I do not know which of us has written this page.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality o...

The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, j...

Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence,in many words recallingname...

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from t...

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...

What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Ques...

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you und...

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge...

Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can...

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow o...

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality ever...

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I h...

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's no...

The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feel...

And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you w...

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

You must have discipline to have fun.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of ou...

Why not start figuring out ways to change the way we treat each other? The way we talk to each other...

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment...

Without discipline there's no life at all.

We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you ...

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - bu...

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becomin...

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also ru...

Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently...I will go down into death with ...

I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all...

I’ll be honest with you. I’m a little bit of a loner. It’s been a big part of my maturing process to...

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little...

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ...

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to...

What about you and me, Adina?” Duff said, sidling up to her by the railing. “I know I screwed up. Bu...

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

We're all in this together ... alone.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit...

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see the...

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there mus...

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They w...

My future is one I must make myself.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the worl...

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

Pa he always said a man had to look spry for himself because nobody would do it for him your oppo...

A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of gove...

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be over...

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, ...

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it s...

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats,...

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously ...

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and com...

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotio...

Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search the...

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me ...

But it was enough if, in my own bed, my sleep was deep and allowed my mind to relax entirely; then i...

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked a...

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only a...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

The gods help those who help themselves.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are ...

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values a...

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functi...