The Self Quotes

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint or hope of hearing?

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it And blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.

Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.

I don't follow precedent I establish it.

Your future depends on many things but mostly on you.

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

The wise don't expect to find life worth living they make it that way.

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility place it in our hands and carry it with dignity and strength.

We are free up to the point of choice then the choice controls the chooser.

To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.

The best bet is to bet on yourself.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan but to have any meaning or viability at all a life plan must include intimate relationships.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.

For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.

A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

If it is to be it is up to me.

There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.

The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.

When I saw something that needed doing I did it.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

If there is no wind row.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves or you will never find it.

As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

If you can't change your fate change your attitude.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without.

No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being ... must come from within.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

It is what you are inside that matters. You yourself are your only real capital.

Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

God why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh lead me to the Beyond within.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within else the temple wavers to dust.

God creates the animals man creates himself.