Quotes About Self

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Every man is his own hell.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

God sinks into dust before man.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

A man is the origin of his action.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.