Self Quotes

The fool shouts loudly thinking to impress the world.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Next to entertaining or impressive talk a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.

Love understands love it needs no talk.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Handle them carefully for words have more power than atom bombs.

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

A gossip is one who talks to you about others a bore is one who talks to you about himself and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you!

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

If I could know me I could know the universe.

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

I knew what my job was it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.

As simple as it sounds we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices by making the most of the talents we've been given.

You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.

If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

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

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

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful if you have that but learn to love what you have.

I shall be an autocrat that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me that's his.

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.