Self Quotes - page 2

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. (George Eliot)

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

George Eliot

Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.

Angelina Jolie

Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Alexander Pope

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

W. H. Auden

For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

Henry Miller

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

G. I. Gurdjieff

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

Richard Bach

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. (Christopher Marlowe)

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 Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes

The first degree of folly is to conceit one's self wise the second to profess it the third to despise counsel.

Benjamin Franklin

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Clare Boothe Luce

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Henry Adams

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

Eric Hoffer

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Alan Perlis

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Francis of Assisi

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Toni Morrison

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

Salvatore Quasimodo

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Charles Cooley

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Irving Wallace

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