Self Quotes

Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence but none to self-restraint, and let us daily progress in that direction.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing is so self-sabotaging as having your actions not reflect your goals. Your life is always just waiting for permission to go where you want it to go... to be shaped how you want it to be shaped.

Steve Maraboli

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

Aldous Huxley

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mahatma Gandhi

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Plato

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

George Eliot

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Voltaire

We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and velour, so long as we are not free. I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us, when we have made enough self-sacrifice. We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred.

Mahatma Gandhi

Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?

Oscar Wilde

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

Cassandra Clare

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Thomas Carlyle

If you want to achieve your greatest self, be your own biggest fan.

Steve Maraboli

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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mahatma Gandhi