Self Quotes - Page 3

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castañeda

I woman give birth: and this time to myself.

Alma Villanueva

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Mignon McLaughlin

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

Rosemary Konner Steinbaum

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

Georgie Anne Geyer

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Bovee

We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

George Bernard Shaw

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

George Harrison

No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

Federico Fellini

There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.

Thomas L. Masson

It is what you are inside that matters. You yourself are your only real capital.

Vladimir Zworykin

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

Marcus Aurelius

I've never met a person I don't care what his condition in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure I believe in him for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.

Preston Bradley

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

God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within.

Macrina Wiederkehr

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

Margaret Mitchell

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

Marcus Aurelius

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

God creates the animals man creates himself.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.

In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment heredity and movements and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.

We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.

Sir Thomas Browne

No man may make another free.

Zora Neale Hurston

The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Simone de Beauvoir

When I saw something that needed doing I did it.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Herodotus

My future is one I must make myself.

Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.

Charles de Gaulle

If there is no wind row.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves or you will never find it.

Bertha von Suttner

As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

Epictetus

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

If you can't change your fate change your attitude.

Amy Tan

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Johann von Goethe

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

Marcus Aurelius

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.

Only those means of security are good are certain are lasting that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

Niccolò Machiavelli

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

Mary Parker Follett

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