Self Quotes

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

~ Dwight Morrow

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

~ Dwight Morrow

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

~ Hindu Proverb

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

~ Hindu Proverb

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

~ Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

~ Samuel Johnson

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

~ Charlotte Cushman

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

~ Charlotte Cushman

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

~ Frank J. Giblin

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

~ Frank J. Giblin

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

~ Graham Sutherland

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

~ Graham Sutherland

I am I plus my circumstances.

~ Josi Ortega Y Gasset

I am I plus my circumstances.

~ Josi Ortega Y Gasset

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

~ George Eliot

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

~ George Eliot

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

~ Walt Whitman

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

~ Walt Whitman

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

~ Axel Munthe

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

~ Axel Munthe

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

~ Anonymous

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

~ Anonymous

If I am not for myself who will be?

~ Pirke Avot

If I am not for myself who will be?

~ Pirke Avot

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

~ Ben Sweet

The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.

~ Ben Sweet

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

~ Abraham J. Heschel

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

~ Abraham J. Heschel

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

~ John Newlove

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

~ John Newlove

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

~ Martin Luther

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope Self.

~ Martin Luther

The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.

~ Robert Service

The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.

~ Robert Service