Only You Can Save Yourself Quotes

#1. A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.

Anthony Anaxagorou

#2. The moment I saw him running toward you that morning, I knew you were going to save him, just as he saved you.

Renee Ahdieh

#3. Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

Simon Sinek

#4. My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Jane McGonigal

#5. Mr. Snagsby, as a timid man, is accustomed to cough with a variety of expressions, and so to save words.

Charles Dickens

#6. We are this world. Its next generation. If you're not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?

Claudia Gray

#7. The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#8. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.

Jennifer Bosworth

#9. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#10. It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

C.E.M. Joad

#11. What we love we can save, including each other, even when we are afraid.

Julian Aguon

#12. I've been going a long time now
along the way I've learned some things.
You have to make the good times yourself
take the little times and make them into big times
and save the times that are all right
for the ones that aren't so good.

Rod McKuen

#13. I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.

Barry Humphries

#14. Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?

Alexandre Dumas

#15. The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.

H.L. Mencken

#16. Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

Theodore Roosevelt

#17. We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.

Susan Stebbing

#18. Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.

Ouida

#19. She said we can't save everyone, but we can damned sure as hell fight to save those we love ... She taught me that we can only do our best. You've done your best ... not beat yourself up because you missed something or someone. It makes you weak.

Lora Leigh

#20. Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

Shunryu Suzuki

#21. The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

Judith Krantz

#22. We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

Timothy Keller

#23. From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

Gabriel Byrne

#24. You can't keep bearing all the weight. In the end, if you try to save everyone you'll only lose yourself.

Joe Hart

#25. The only person who should have control over your life is God. You're not super woman. Sometimes you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you can save anybody else.

Norma Jarrett

#26. I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#27. You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

Guillaume Musso

#28. Light came into the darkness, but the darkness didn't understand it," Susan said. "Look to the light. Only the light can save you from yourself.

Ted Dekker

#29. One of the most scariest thing in life is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you is ... yourself

Demi Lovato

#30. If I can save one person along the way, I'm okay. The trials and tribulations my special needs kids go through daily is far greater than the journey I'm about to go on.

Renee Sloan

#31. America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.

Patrick Bedard

#32. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#33. One way to make health care more affordable is a Flexible Savings Account that allows families to save tax free money to pay for medical bills.

Marco Rubio

#34. You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.

Karen Marie Moning

#35. Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.

Groucho Marx

#36. I started writing to save my life.

Joy Harjo

#37. I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

Victoria Principal

#38. But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know.

J.A. Huss

#39. I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, and then coming home with her. Living next to her. Promising to marry her. The

Suzanne Collins

#40. And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

Kahlil Gibran

#41. Not to marry, know love, or bind, their fate;
Your line to die for never seed shall take.
Death and torment to those caught in their wake,
unless each son finds his forechosen mate...
For his true lady alone his life and heart can save.

Kresley Cole

#42. I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

Rose Schneiderman

#43. Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

Charles C. Ryrie

#44. Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

Ezra Taft Benson

#45. There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Jodi Picoult

#46. Let no one define how you se yourself ... save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are.

Tamera Alexander

#47. In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?"
"You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

Julia Quinn

#48. People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#49. The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

Marilyn Manson

#50. My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

Dalai Lama

#51. We all grieve in our own ways," Avasarala said. "For what it's worth, you'll never kill enough people to keep your platoon from dying. No more than I can save enough people that one of them will be Charanpal.

James S.A. Corey

#52. Vanye: You're asking me to kill you.
Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

Robert Fanney

#53. I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.

Augustine Of Hippo

#54. Maybe I need somebody that could save me
From the parts of myself that keep making me crazy.

Slug

#55. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Gordon Banks

#56. It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Learned Hand