4,826 Quotes About Self

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.