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Sunday, June 25, 2023

Self Quotes

Quotes About Self

  • A year of self-surrender will bring larger blessings than fourscore year of selfishness. Anonymous
  • Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.  Leo Herlihy
  • Before you let yourself go, be sure you can get yourself back. Roger Allen
  • Decorate yourself from the inside out  Woody Paige
  • Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin
  • He is a self-made man and worships his creator. John Bright
  • He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others. Samuel Johnson
  • I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, But it comes from within. It is there all the time.  Anna Freud
  • If I won't be myself, who will? Alfred Hitchcock
  • If you are overly concerned with how you're going to be perceived by everyone, then you've disconnected yourself from intention and allowed the opinions of others to guide you. Dr. Wayne Dyer
  • I've gone to find myself. If I get back before I've found me, please keep me here.  
  • Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw
  • Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. Alexis Carrel
  • Never explain yourself to anyone. Because the person who likes you doesn't need it, and the person who dislikes you won't believe it. unknown
  • Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. Robert Southey (1774-1843), British poet.
  • None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.  Bertolt Brecht, 1933 
  • Risk anything! ...Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield
  • Since God offers to manage our affairs for us, let us once and for all hand them over to His infinite wisdom, in order to occupy ourselves only with Himself and what belongs to Him. J. P. de Caussade
  • Sorry for my self-confident self  Woody Paige
  • Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. Glenn Clark
  • The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at. Jesse Owens
  • The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. O.J. Simpson
  • The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self. Montaigne
  • The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. E. E. Cummings 
  • The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? Myrtie Barker
  • The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.  Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist 
  • There are more self-marred people in the world than there are self-made. Arnold H. Glasow
  • Your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Mard
  • Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? --MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
  • Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. --A. C. Benson
  • Self-trust is the first secret of success. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. --Henri Frederic Amiel
  • The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. --Bryant H. McGill
  • If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. --Marcus Garvey
  •  I am a spiritual being... After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. --Max Lucado
  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. --ALBERT EINSTEIN



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Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
Psalm 119:36 Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.
Proverbs 18:1 An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.
Galatians 5:23 (ESV) gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Peter 1:6 (ESV) and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV) for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Acts 20:35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
2 Timothy 1:7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
James 1:27 The religious service which is pure and stainless in the sight of our God and Father is to visit fatherless children and widowed women in their time of trouble, and to keep one's own self unspotted from the world.
Romans 12:3 ESV For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
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