Self Quotes - Page 6

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Charlotte Bunch

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

Boethius

Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

Katherine Graham

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Louis Kronenberger

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

No one can figure out your worth but you.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Philip James Bailey

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Diogenes

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

Olive Schreiner

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.

Faith Whittlesey

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.

God wastes nothing.

Jan Karon

To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world will be lost indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

Phyllis McGinley

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

Rosie O'Donnell

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Olive Schreiner

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami but salami is salami.

Oh I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!

Meg Ryan

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

Jean Lush

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Your thorns are the best part of you.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

Barbra Streisand

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

Marilyn Vos Savant

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Amy Tan

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Cicero

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are the signposts are there waiting for us to translate them.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

Frances Partridge

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions rages can one hope to understand a little ... oh I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.

Françoise Sagan

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Flannery O'Connor

We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Sylvia Pankhurst

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Mary McLeod Bethune

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

Muriel Rukeyser

Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

G.K. Chesterton

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Jean de La Fontaine

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

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