Self Quotes

If your ship doesn't come in swim out to it.

~ Jonathan Winters

To character and success two things contradictory as they may seem must go together-humble dependence and manly independence humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

~ William Wordsworth

I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.

~ Marina Tsvetaeva

My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice my responsibility win or lose only I hold the key to my destiny.

~ Elaine Maxwell

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.

~ Jane Rule

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

~ Patricia Sampson

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

~ Margaret Sanger

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

~ Clementine Paddleford

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

~ James Lane Allen

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.

~ Robert C. Peale

I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.

~ William E. Henley

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.

~ Billie Jean King

A man is a lion in his own cause.

~ Scottish Proverb

For they can conquer who believe they can.

~ Virgil

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

~ Charles Montesquieu

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

~ William Ellery Channing

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

~ Gotthold E. Lessing

Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

~ Bible

Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?

~ Macaulay

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

~ Jimmy Rushing

Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but that's just, I think if you don't have attitude, it comes only with self confidence. So if you don't have self confidence, you won't have attitude, and I think there's a difference when you have attitude and when you have arrogance.

~ Sania Mirza

I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'

~ Mary J. Blige

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

~ William Hazlitt

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

~ Arthur Miller

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

~ Maya Angelou

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

~ Ralph W. Sockman

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

~ Gina Carano

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

~ J.k. Rowling

'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

~ Feist

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

~ Kristy Swanson

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care.

~ Ben Hopkins

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

~ Simon Pegg

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

~ Sun Tzu

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

~ William James

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

~ Ameen Rihani

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

~ Nancy Gibbs

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

~ Mohsin Hamid