Self Quotes

Love understands love it needs no talk.

~ Frances Ridley Havergal

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

~ Lillian Hellman

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

~ Julia Ward Howe

Handle them carefully for words have more power than atom bombs.

~ Pearl Strachan Hurd

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.

~ Marie Leneru

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

~ Charlotte Lennox

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

~ Hannah Moore

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

~ Myrtle Reed

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

~ Muriel Spark

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand- any dog child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

~ Freya Stark

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

~ Gertrude Stein

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

A gossip is one who talks to you about others a bore is one who talks to you about himself and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

~ Lisa Kirk

Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

~ Anaïs Nin

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

~ Mother Teresa

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

~ Barbara Walters

The less said the better.

~ Jane Austen

No man is free who is not master of himself.

~ Epictetus

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.

~ Epictetus

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

~ Lord Alfred Tennyson

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land and then is when we are in bad trouble.

~ Joan Didion

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies the hardest victory is the victory over self.

~ Aristotle

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

~ Sharon Anthony Bower

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

~ Samuel Johnson

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

~ John Milton

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

~ Cynthia Propper Seton

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves their abilities their frailties and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

~ Sydney J. Harris

If I could know me I could know the universe.

~ Shirley Maclaine

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

~ Chuang-Tzu

I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.

~ Margaret Chase Smith

We should know what our convictions are and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy conscious or unconscious depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is so will be his ultimate truth.

~ Carl Jung

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

~ Caroline Bird

I knew what my job was it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

~ Diana

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

~ Patricia Fripp

Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

~ Matthew Arnold

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

~ Linda Thomson

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

~ Virginia Woolf