Self Quotes
With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.
Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.
Every Moment of your life is a new Page in your Book. Some Sentences you can’t change, even whole Pages. But you decide how your Book ends.
A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.
One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.
Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.
The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.
I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.
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.
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.
I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.