Self Quotes - Page 13

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Eleanor Roosevelt

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

sue atchley ebaugh

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann von Goethe

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Nicolas de Chamfort

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

Horace

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.

Sir Walter Raleigh

I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Henry David Thoreau

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Anonymous

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Cleveland Amory

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

Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

We cannot all be masters.

William Shakespeare

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.

Napoléon Bonaparte

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Saint Francis de Sales

I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!

Marie Bashkirtseff

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

William Feather

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Saint Francis de Sales

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

Martial

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

Charles A. Hawley

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Marian Wright Edelman

Of all our infirmities the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel de Montaigne

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To find the good life you must become yourself.

Dr. Bill Jackson

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

José Ortega y Gasset

Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.

Ruth P. Freedman

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

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

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Barbara Walters

A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.

Ugo Betti

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

What thou art that thou art.

Thomas à Kempis

People remain what they are even when their faces fall to pieces.

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself in spite of being unacceptable.

Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.

William Sloane Coffin

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