Self Quotes

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where’s the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

the worst thing, " he told me, "is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.

There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.

This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of Self.

Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

Elijah found his substitute Elisha in his purpose doing work in the field

Self-knowledge is power.

By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.