Self Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Michel de Montaigne,
Antonio Porchia
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| It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid? |
| - Richard Bach |
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| You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. |
| - Ethel Barrymore |
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| I say me, knowing all the while it's not me. |
| - Samuel Beckett |
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| When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. |
| - Robert Browning |
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| We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. |
| - Charles Caleb Colton |
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| And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. |
| - Confucius |
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| Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. |
| - Henry Van Dyke |
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| My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We must be our own before we can be another's. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. |
| - Carl G. Jung |
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| What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self. |
| - Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. |
| - H.F. Hedge |
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| Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. |
| - Lillian Hellman |
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| Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. |
| - Martin Luther, Jr. King |
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| Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. |
| - D.H. Lawrence |
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| At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself? |
| - Phillip C. McGraw |
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| We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. |
| - Norman Vincent Peale |
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| I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. |
| - Sylvia Plath |
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| Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Some things become so completely our own that we forget them. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. |
| - Katherine Anne Porter |
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| Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. |
| - Laurens Van der Post |
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| It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. |
| - Marcel Proust |
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| It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. |
| - Agnes Repplier |
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| Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. |
| - Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| I am my own heaven and hell! |
| - Johann Christoph friedrich von Schiller |
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| In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. |
| - James Thurber |
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| Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! there is the sting of life. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| One's only real life is the life one never leads. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. |
| - Virginia Woolf |
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| We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. |
| - William Butler Yeats |
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