Self Quotes

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

My closest relation is myself.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.

In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.

When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.

Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.

Cherish forever what makes you unique 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!

I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.

Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.