Top 100 Quotes About One's Self
#1. The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one's self.
Maria Montessori
#3. Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
George Pierce Baker
#4. To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift
Sunday Adelaja
#5. To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.
Gelett Burgess
#6. Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame De Stael
#7. For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?
Shannon L. Alder
#8. Not long ago, someone who was dissatisfied with his or her spouse and wanted a divorce had to justify that decision. Today it's the opposite: If you're not fulfilled by your marriage, you have to justify staying in it, because of the tremendous cultural pressure to be good to one's self.
Anonymous
#9. The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
Djuna Barnes
#11. I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,
Walt Whitman
#12. ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.
Dalai Lama
#13. Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers.
Ravi Zacharias
#14. One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.
Elisabeth Of Wied
#15. The main purpose of hobby is to promote one's self-actualization
Sunday Adelaja
#16. The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
#17. To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
Menander
#18. A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#19. To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.
Sir Fulke Greville
#20. Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#21. Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
Vash Young
#23. Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Constantin Brancusi
#24. Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
Ramana Maharshi
#25. Human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.
Anais Nin
#26. The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#27. The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#28. Forgiveness does not mean condoning or agreeing with a horrendous act. It is a decision to no longer attack one's self.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
#29. Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated an explanation for their situation in life ... Their rationales are endowed with moral qualities.
Robert E Lane
#30. What other goal could there be, then finding one's self within God and God within one's very Self? For as we know God, we also are known.
Vivian Amis
#31. The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
Anatole Broyard
#32. Most of one's troubles in this world come from something inside one's self.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#33. This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.
Richard Bach
#34. The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
#35. Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
Uta Hagen
#36. Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.
Thomas Hobbes
#37. The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake
let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.
Victor Hugo
#38. The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
Leo Tolstoy
#39. The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.
Bhikkhu Analayo
#40. I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
Arthur Miller
#41. The whole of the American Dream has been based on the chance to get ahead, for one's self or one's children. Would this country have ever reached the point it has if the individual had always been refused the rewards of his labors and dangers?
James Adams
#42. It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
Andrew Carnegie
#43. Other's power, other's enjoyments, other's space, people have become the owners of that which does not belong to one's self. If they become the owners of 'Self', death is no more; One is himself, the Absolute Supreme Soul.
Dada Bhagwan
#44. There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.
Shirley Maclaine
#45. Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#46. Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?
Edith Wharton
#47. Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.
Tom Bissell
#48. The mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!
Sarah Orne Jewett
#49. Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.
Arthur Lynch
#50. Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.
Diane Haeger
#51. With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.
Dharma Mittra
#52. It's not easy taking care of one's self, determining nap lengths and all that, but with two people it's a manageable job.
Jonathan Ames
#53. What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?
Henry James
#54. My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#55. It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#56. To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.
Hermann Hesse
#57. Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
Sydney J. Harris
#58. By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
Gautama Buddha
#59. Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.
Rollo May
#60. there was no getting away from one's self. So
Jane Austen
#61. An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
Mark Twain
#62. There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#63. Peace has been variously defined, but perhaps we might think of it as 'harmony within one's self, and with God and man.'
Marion G. Romney
#64. The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
Publilius Syrus
#65. Allowing one's self to be forgiven is just as hard as forgiving. Harder in some ways. Because to be forgiven, one first has to admit to being at fault.
Laura Lippman
#66. We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one's self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace.
Ron Baratono
#67. Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Anais Nin
#69. One should try to be one's own best friend and to give one's self, in this manner, distinguished company.
Henry James
#70. When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.
Pearl S. Buck
#71. Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.
Ambrose Bierce
#72. My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better ... to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.
Gail Sheehy
#73. There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
Pasquier Quesnel
#74. While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one's self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so.
Stephen Richards
#75. Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
May Sarton
#76. It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Margaret Fuller
#77. One's self-image not only encompasses the person you are but also the person you wanted to be, could be or once had been.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#78. I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely
Henry David Thoreau
#81. Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one's self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.
Emily Thorne
#83. There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
Virginia Woolf
#86. Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one's self.
Gloria Steinem
#87. If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.
Lydia Lunch
#88. The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#89. The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.
Benjamin Franklin
#90. Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
Joel Chandler Harris
#91. One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
George Eliot
#92. To free one's self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.
Bruce Lee
#93. It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.
George Eliot
#94. To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#95. There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
Philip Sidney
#96. The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of one's self for the benefit of others. Love yourself but never forget to be altruistic to others in need.
Debasish Mridha
#97. To be in love is to surpass one's self.
Oscar Wilde
#99. To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#100. Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
Henry James
