Quotes About Self

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

The soul of this man is his clothes.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.

A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice.

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

The End of every maker is himself.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

Our passions are ourselves.