Self Quotes

To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world will be lost indeed.

~ Phyllis Mcginley

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

~ Phyllis Mcginley

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

~ Golda Meir

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.

~ Anaïs Nin

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.

~ Rosie O'donnell

The surest sign of fitness is success.

~ Olive Schreiner

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.

~ Raquel Welch

I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.

~ Fay Weldon

I am not a glutton-I am an explorer of food.

~ Erma Bombeck

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

~ Elayne Boosler

To know oneself one should assert oneself.

~ Albert Camus

I am because my little dog knows me.

~ Gertrude Stein

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

~ Sigourney Weaver

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

~ Cynthia Ozick

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

~ Gail Sheehy

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

~ Charlotte Bunch

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

~ Boethius

Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

~ Katherine Graham

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

~ Joan Didion

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

~ Louis Kronenberger

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

No one can figure out your worth but you.

~ Pearl Bailey

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

~ Philip James Bailey

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

~ H. G. Bohn

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: To know one's self.

~ Diogenes

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

~ Robert Burns

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

~ William Shakespeare

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

~ George Eliot

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

~ La Rochefoucauld

All men love themselves.

~ Plautus

I to myself am dearer than a friend.

~ William Shakespeare

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

~ Wilde Self-Made

He is a self-made man and worships his creator.

~ John Bright

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

~ English Proverb