Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old self quotes, self sayings, and self proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
This thing we call 'self' is, depending on the spiritual angle from which it is viewed, everything. And nothing.Charles Johnson
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The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror. And each will smile at the other's welcome.Derek Walcott
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The consciousness of self is not the closing of a door to communication. Philosophic thought teaches us, on the contrary, that it is its guarantee.Frantz Fanon
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.Pearl Bailey
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Who knows himself knows others. Chinese Proverb
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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.Louis XIV
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.E.E. Cummings
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You are what you are when no one is looking.Robert Edwards
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Seem, as you are, yourself... be, as you seem to be.Mevlana
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Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.Francis Bacon
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Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.Menander Of Athens
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One is a fool that praises himself, and one is mad who speaks ill of himself.Danish Proverb
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Many men are wise about many things and ignorant about themselves.St. Bernard
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One's own self is the most difficult to master.Far Eastern Saying
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Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do, so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.Jeremy Taylor
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
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A man who lives only for himself is truly dead to others. Publilius Syrus
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People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.Oliver Goldsmith
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The most amiable men are those who least wound the self-love of others.Jean De La Bruyere
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We are what we repeatedly do...excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, build a habit and life isn't just a series of events but an ongoing process of self-definition.Aristotle
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.Bartlett
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I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.Bartlett
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The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self.Francis Bacon