Quotes About Self

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.