Quotes About Self

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.

The man just is, but clothes are becoming.

Man loves most that which is his own.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Man is but the place where I stand.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.