Quotes About Self

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man?

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

If a man's shadow is brighter than himself, than that man becomes the shadow itself!

Since no man has a predetermined destiny, every day all man can create a new destiny for himself!

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.