Self Quotes

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

~ Herman Melville

From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.

~ Herman Melville

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

~ William Hale White

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

~ William Hale White

When three people call you an ass put on a bridle.

~ Spanish Proverb

When three people call you an ass put on a bridle.

~ Spanish Proverb

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

~ Bernard Berenson

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

~ Bernard Berenson

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

~ Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.

~ Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

~ Blaise Pascal

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

~ Blaise Pascal

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

~ Paul Valéry

To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

~ Paul Valéry

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

~ William Shakespeare

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

~ William Shakespeare

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

~ Alfred

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.

~ Alfred

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

~ Erich Fromm

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

~ Erich Fromm

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

~ Victoria

The important thing is not what they think of me it is what I think of them.

~ Victoria

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

~ Rollo May

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

~ Rollo May

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

~ Robert Burns

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

~ Robert Burns

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Self-command is the main elegance.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-command is the main elegance.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I am better than my reputation.

~ Friedrich Von Schiller

I am better than my reputation.

~ Friedrich Von Schiller