Self Quotes

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.

Learning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

God wastes nothing.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

I am because my little dog knows me.

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

What poison is to food self-pity is to life.

Grumbling is the death of love.

To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

He who complains sins.

There is only one way to end a self-pity cycle: stop comparing yourself to others and simply follow Christ.

Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.

When you find yourself overpowered as it were by melancholy the best way is to go out and do something.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Our family never had any hard luck because nothing seemed hard luck to it nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

It's not the load that breaks you down it's the way you carry it.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.