Self Quotes - Page 15

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

Bonaro Overstreet

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

William Hazlitt

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

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

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself all your annoying habits are gone!

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Elizabeth Taylor

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.

Thomas à Kempis

In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

Theo E. Colborn

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Emily Dickinson

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Dwight L. Moody

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Arthur Davison Ficke

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

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

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

James Russell Lowell

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

Josi Ortega y Gasset

My closest relation is myself.

Terence

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

Michel de Montaigne

You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

William J. H. Boetcker

Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.

Susan B. Anthony

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

Stewart E. White

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.

J. C. F. von Schiller

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Kay Boyle

I am better than my reputation.

Friedrich von Schiller

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

Louis Kronenberger

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

Paul Wunderlich

Every man shall bear his own burden.

Bible

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

Goethe

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Bernard Lonergan

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

Herman Melville

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

Ernest Hemingway

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

William Hale White

When three people call you an ass put on a bridle.

Spanish Proverb

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