Self Quotes
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
When any fit of gloominess or perversion of mind lays hold upon you make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
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.
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.
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.
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams