First Know Thyself Quotes

#1. The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way.

Archibald Marwizi

#2. You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take preventive action. Relax, boychick. When they get to know you better they will realize that they were right. You are a shit.

Mordecai Richler

#3. I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#4. You can't be a big dreamer if you don't where you are going. You can't know where you are going unless you first know where you are.

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. We're late. For a VERY important date

Elle Lothlorien

#6. I think that makeup can be challenging, especially when you are younger.

Lauren Conrad

#7. ... walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend.

Tsegaye Gebre Medhin

#8. The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

Mortimer J. Adler

#9. Moments cast rivulets,
Others eyes see.
Faith awaits,
From a once dormant state,
Inside you, inside me.

Kari L. Greenaway

#10. To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

Vironika Tugaleva

#11. Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

Alexis Korner

#12. Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day

Evan Sutter

#13. Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.

Georgette Mosbacher

#14. The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Adam Smith

#15. There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.

Dolph Lundgren

#16. Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Avicenna

#17. Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult - in any way - something in your childhood dies.

John Irving

#18. Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

Akhenaton

#19. Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

Thomas Berry