Quotes About Self

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

Ain't nothing a man can't do if he believes in himself.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

There are no men like me. There's only me

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

A man must be himself or nothing!

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.