Self Quotes

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

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

Margaret Sanger

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

James Lane Allen

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.

Robert C. Peale

I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.

William E. Henley

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.

Billie Jean King

A man is a lion in his own cause.

Scottish Proverb

For they can conquer who believe they can.

Virgil

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

Charles Montesquieu

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

William Ellery Channing

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

Gotthold E. Lessing

Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Bible

Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

Macaulay

Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.

Dame Flora Robson

Help yourself and heaven will help you.

Jean de La Fontaine

God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.

Josiah G. Holland

The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm "O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."

Michel de Montaigne

Trust in Allah but tie your camel first.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

Epicurus

Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

The gods help those who help themselves.

Marcus Terentius Varro

He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

Put your trust in God my boys and keep your powder dry!

Valentine Blacker

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Aeschylus

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Menander

God has entrusted me with myself.

Epictetus

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

William Wordsworth

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

Marina Tsvetaeva

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice my responsibility win or lose only I hold the key to my destiny.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.

Jane Rule

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Patricia Sampson

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.

God helps those who help themselves.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

Henry S. Haskins

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."

Sydney J. Harris

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Bernard M. Baruch

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself the day you stop making excuses that's the day you start your move to the top.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Sophocles

When you blame others you give up your power to change.

Anonymous

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Sophocles

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly "I was wrong."

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Albert Schweitzer

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity self-sufficiency and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.

Dr. William Menninger

Somebody's boring me I think it's me.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

Shirley Temple Black

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Under normal periods any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

James A. Worsham

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