Self Quotes

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

True, Night, Follow

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir

Life, Trust, Happy

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Love, Absence, Deadly

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

Him, Victory, Desires

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou

Love, Respect, Die

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship, Important, Friends

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey

Life, Confidence, Race

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

True, Above, Thine

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller

Teacher, Person, Another

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Mother, Atoms

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

Hard, Three, Diamond

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil Gibran

Pain, Sick, Bitter

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Change, Power, Freedom

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few, Wants, Serve

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill

Conquer, Conquered

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico

End, Fight, Justice

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Thousand, Battles

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Belief, Interest

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Brendan Francis

Loneliness, Powerful, Deep

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham

Strength, Others, Tears

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin Luther

Great, Heart, Afraid

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcolm X

Violence, Call, Defense

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Universe, Corner, Improving

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Confidence, Before

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson

Change, Often, Needed

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
Oprah Winfrey

Done, Rich, Become

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan Watts

Yourself, Everything, Impossible

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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