4,826 Quotes About Self

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.