Quotes About Self

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern Fact, the sad self, unrelenting identical that I fled from.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

A man is a god in ruins.

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Do not say things. Who you are thunders over you all the while so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.

But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;-and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not be absent from the chamber which thou sittest.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Everything Real Is Self-Existent.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are two absorbing facts, --I and the abyss.