Quotes About Self

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

It is your attitude about yourself that a man will adopt.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

Men measure not only other men, but all other things, by themselves.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

Every man makes a god of his own desire

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.