Self Quotes - Page 12

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Channing Pollock

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Lucille S. Harper

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field piteous all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another.

Helen Hunt Jackson

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

Edwin H. Chapin

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing and when I accepted that and found the way to do it then I was able to write.

Robert B. Parker

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.

Vita Sackville-West

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Luigi Pirandello

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Mary S. Almanac

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

Nature never repeats herself and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.

If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.

Emmanuel

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be.

Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

William Hazlitt

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

Barbara De Angelis

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

Sherwood Anderson

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

Wilma Pearl Mankiller

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

William Hazlitt

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.

Dr. Karl Menninger

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

William Klassen

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

Colleen Dewhurst

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.

Anonymous

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.

Charlotte P. Gilman

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

Belle Livingstone

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Bernard de Fontenelle

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margaret Fontey

A hero is a man who does what he can.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Charles Dudley Warner

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

Pindar

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

I hope to work support my children and die quietly without pain.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Dr. Harriet Braiker

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Alexander the Great

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Teresa of Avila.

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

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