Self Quotes

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

~ Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

~ Walt Whitman

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

~ John Donne

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

~ John Donne

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

~ Jewish Proverb

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

~ Jewish Proverb

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

~ Louis Kronenberger

Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

~ Louis Kronenberger

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.

~ Minnie Smith

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.

~ Minnie Smith

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

~ Samuel Johnson

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

~ Samuel Johnson

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

~ Paul Wunderlich

I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

~ Paul Wunderlich

Every man shall bear his own burden.

~ Bible

Every man shall bear his own burden.

~ Bible

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

~ Edith Evans

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

~ Edith Evans

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

~ Goethe

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

~ Goethe

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

~ Dorothy Parker

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

~ Dorothy Parker

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

~ Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

~ Jane Austen

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

~ Robert Burns

God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

~ Robert Burns

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

~ Bernard Lonergan

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

~ Bernard Lonergan

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

~ Woodrow Wilson

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

~ Woodrow Wilson

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

~ E. E. Cummings

to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

~ E. E. Cummings

Learn what you are and be such.

~ Pindar

Learn what you are and be such.

~ Pindar

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

~ Oscar Wilde

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

~ Oscar Wilde

A man must learn to forgive himself.

~ Arthur Davison Ficke

A man must learn to forgive himself.

~ Arthur Davison Ficke

I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.

~ Dorothy H. Rath

I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.

~ Dorothy H. Rath