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Quotes About Self

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.
~ Richard Ellmann
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
~ Carlos Fuentes
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
~ Mencius
We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves
~ Adolf Hitler
Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.
~ Aldous Huxley
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
~ Allen Carr
Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.
~ Andrei Platonov
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.
~ Malcolm Forbes
To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.
~ Mary Catherwood
Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.
~ Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
~ Oscar Wilde
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.
~ H. L. Mencken
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
~ Honore de Balzac
Every man heals himself.
~ Janet Morris
Man is the being whose project it is to be God.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
~ John Ciardi
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.
~ John Fletcher
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
~ Joseph Hall
There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.
~ Kevin Drew
In love, each man is his own personal challenge.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
~ Rudyard Kipling