Self Quotes

A friend is, as it were, a second self. (Cicero)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. View quote
Aristotle
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. View quote
Aesop
The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. View quote
Arthur Miller
We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish. View quote
Sam Walton
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. View quote
John Dewey
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. View quote
Maya Angelou
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. View quote
Cyril Connolly
The easiest person to deceive is one's self. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. View quote
Thomas Szasz
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. View quote
Max Stirner
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. View quote
Charles Cooley
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. (May Sarton)
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. View quote
John Updike
To write is to read one's own self. View quote
Max Frisch
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. View quote
George Eliot
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. View quote
George Eliot