The Self Quotes
Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be.
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
If I am not for myself who is for me? And if I am only for myself what am I? And if not now when?
Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.
If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?
Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."
The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.
There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna or it can smooth the edges take away the insecurities let the nice things come out.
It is often the case with finer natures that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.
Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.
Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.
There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.
For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost beyond our capacity at times but something to be carried high.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Old age is that night of life as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence and for many it is more brilliant than the day.
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.
