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As you get older it is harder to have heroes  but it is sort of necessary.
— Ernest Hemingway
The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.
— Paul D. Shafer
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime  and  departing  leave behind us  footprints on the sands of time.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Very few men are wise by their own counsel  or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.
— Ben Johnson
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
— B. C. Forbes
Without heroes  we are all plain people  and don't know how far we can go.
— Bernard Malamud
If you can't be a good example  then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
— Catherine Aird
A good example is the best sermon.
— Anonymous
Children have more need of models than of critics.
— Carolyn Coats
Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.
— Ayn Rand
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
— Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Example has more followers than reason.
— Christian Bovee
Example moves the world more than doctrine.
— Henry Miller
Example is the school of mankind  and they will learn at no other.
— Edmund Burke
We travel to learn  and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it  think some thoughts better than we think  catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
— Maria Mitchell
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation  by actual experience in the school of life  by ceaseless alertness to learn from others  by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks  by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects  by constant study of human nature.
— B. C. Forbes
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When you are a mother  you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice  once for herself and once for her child.
— Sophia Loren
Our mothers and our grandmothers  some of them: moving to music not yet written.
— Alice Walker
Nothing is so infectious as example.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
— Agnes Meyer
Imitation is for shirkers  like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers  unifying for the creators.
— Mary Parker Follett
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
— William James
Go to the ant  thou sluggard  learn to live  and by her busy ways  reform thy own.
— Elizabeth Smart
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
— Cicely Tyson
Emulation is a noble and just passion  full of appreciation.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions  envy is only moved to malice.
— Honore de Balzac
Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.
— Ben Johnson
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
— Henry S. Haskins
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
— Emily Post
Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Martin Vanbee
A prudent person profits from personal experience  a wise one from the experience of others.
— Dr. Joseph Collins
If ... you can't be a good example  then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
— Catherine Aird
All roads lead to Rome  but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.
— Jean de la Fontaine
The grandeur that was Rome.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Rome was not built in a day.
— Anonymous
The king reigns but does not govern.
— Otto von Bismarck
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
— Sir William Blackstone
Every noble crown is  and on Earth will forever be  a crown of thorns.
— Thomas Carlyle
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
— Samuel Johnson
I am the State.
— Louis XIV
The King is dead! Long live the King!
— Pardoe
Put not your trust in princes.
— Bible
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
— William Shakespeare
Ay  every inch a king.
— William Shakespeare
Nations have passed away and left no traces  And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases  They fell because their peoples were not fit.
— Rudyard Kipling
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle  stricken with a dart  Said  when he saw the fashion of the shaft  'With our own feathers  not by others' hands  Are we now smitten.'
— Aeschylus
No man is demolished but by himself.
— Thomas Bentley
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
— Edmund Burke
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Candour and generosity  unless tempered by due moderation  lead to ruin.
— Tacitus
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women  gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
— Pope John
"They say so" is half a lie.
— Thomas Fuller
I cannot tell how the truth may be  I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
— Walter Scott
What some invent the rest enlarge.
— Jonathan Swift
God blessed the seventh day  and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
— Bible
Day of the Lord  as all our days should be!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Sabbath was made for man  and not man for the Sabbath.
— Anonymous
Sadness is a state of sin.
— Andre Gide
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
— Emily Bronte
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
— Brigitte Bardot
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
— Andre Gide
It is better to be safe than sorry.
— American Proverb
The trodden path is the safest.
— Legal maxim
They that go down to the sea in ships  that do business in great waters  these see the works of the Lord  and his wonders in the deep.
— Bible
The wind that blows  the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.
— Old English Toast
The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
— V. S. Pritchett
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
— Arthur Miller
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When we remember that we are all mad  the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
— Mark Twain
Madness is part of all of us  all the time  and it comes and goes  waxes and wanes.
— Otto Friedrich
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes  but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
— Sigmund Freud
Work and love - these are the basics  waking life is a dream controlled.
— George Santayana
Outside  among your fellows  among strangers  you must preserve appearances  a hundred things you cannot do  but inside  the terrible freedom!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity is very rare  every man almost  and every woman  has a dash of madness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mad  bad and dangerous to know.
— Lady Caroline
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
— Samuel Beckett
There is a pleasure sure  In being mad  which none but madmen know!
— John Dryden
He not only overflowed with learning  but stood in the slop.
— Sydney Smith
If we wish to know the force of human genius  we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning  we may study his commentators.
— William Hazlitt
The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.
— Kenneth Grahame
Research  as the college student will come to know it  is relatively thorough investigation  primarily in libraries  of a properly limited topic  and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.
— Cecil B. Williams
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use  and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library  where he can get it if he wants it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
What is research  but a blind date with knowledge?
— Will Henry
If I had read as much as other men  I should have known no more than they.
— Thomas Hobbes
Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.
— John Milton
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
— William Hazlitt
I would live to study  not study to live.
— Francis Bacon
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
— Arthur Schlesinger
If school results were the key to power  girls would be running the world.
— Sarah Boseley
All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.
— Lord Kelvin
As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality  they are not certain  and as far as they are certain  they do not refer to reality.
— Albert Einstein
He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
— H. G. Wells
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
— John F. Kennedy
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music  all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
— George Santayana
If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket  technology can help it get there by jet.
— Charles M. Allen
In science  all facts  no matter how trivial or banal  enjoy democratic equality.
— Mary McCarthy
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
— James Jeans
Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.
— BBC World Service
Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.
— Stephen Strauss
My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
— Marcel Pagnol
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
— Martin Friedman
Reason  observation  and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks  but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
— Henri Poincare
Science without religion is lame  religion without science is blind.
— Albert Einstein
Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
— Norbert Wiener
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
— Mike Russell
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.
— Dennis Flanagan
Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
— Max Frisch
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
— Thomas Huxley
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
— J. K. Galbraith
Whenever science makes a discovery  the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
— Alan Valentine
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
— Elvin Stackman
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for  and is therefore right in postulating  may be enveloped in a wider order  on which she has no claim at all.
— William James
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
— Albert Einstein
Though many have tried  no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science  which can do so much  cannot decide what it ought to do.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
It may be bizarre  but in my opinion  science offers a sure path to God and religion.
— Paul Davies
As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown  our science and technology are so powerful that  if an intense effort is made  we can do almost anything we want in say  ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.
— Hannes Alfvin
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
— Marston Bates
Research is to see what everybody has seen  and to think what nobody else has thought.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.
— Douglas Yates
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
— Paul R. Ehrlich
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems  except the things in the world that just don't add up.
— James Magary
The World would be a safer place  If someone had a plan  Before exploring Outer Space  To find the Inner Man.
— E. Y. Harburg
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right  a single experiment can prove me wrong.
— Albert Einstein
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times  the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right 
— Albert Einstein
There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.
— Gregory Zilboorg
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world  not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
— William Osier
The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems  and they never come out again.
— Al Goodman
Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.
— Leonard Schiff
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
— Alex Comfort
E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
— Albert Einstein
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
— Fred Hoyle
It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science  and about the things that were known before science came.
— Lord Dunsany
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
— Buckminster Fuller
Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented  among other things  the crank  the horse collar  eyeglasses  the flying buttress  the stirrup  the windmill  the wheelbarrow  printing  firearms  paper  the canal lock  the compass  the rudder  the mechanical clock  the spinning wheel  and the treadle.
— Joseph and Frances Gies
The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
— The British Army Journal
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error  many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
— Alexis Carrel
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
— Sir Humphrey Davy
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.
— Wernher von Braun
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
— Isaac Newton
It is the theory which decided what can be observed.
— Albert Einstein
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
— John Dewey
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago  but it is put to better use.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science and art belong to the whole world  and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
— Goethe
Science is simply common sense at its best - that is  rigidly accurate in observation  and merciless to fallacy in logic.
— T. H. Huxley
Science is nothing but developed perception  interpreted intent  common sense rounded out  and minutely articulated.
— George Santayana
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
— George Henry Lewes
Science is nothing but perception.
— Plato
Science is organized knowledge.
— Herbert Spencer
Give me but one hour of Scotland  Let me see it ere I die.
— Wiluam E. Aytoun
O Caledonia! stern and wild  Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood  Land of the mountain and the flood  Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged strand!
— Walter Scott
A glory gilds the sacred page  Majestic like the sun  It gives a light to every age  It gives  but borrows none.
— William Cowper
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
— Bible
We search the world for truth  we cull The good  the pure  the beautiful  From all old flower fields of the soul  And  weary seekers of the best  We come back laden from our quest  To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music  so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
— Louisa May Alcott
Then marble  soften'd into life  grew warm.
— Alexander Pope
Praise the sea  on shore remain.
— John Florio
He that will learn to pray  let him go to sea.
— George Edward Herbert
I must go down to the seas again  to the lonely sea and the sky  And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
— John Masefield
The sea hath no king but God alone.
— Christina Rossetti
Break  break  break  On thy cold gray stones  O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
Autumn to winter  winter into spring. Spring  into summer  summer into fall  -  So rolls the changing year  and so we change  -Motion so swift  we know not that we move.
— Dinah Mulock Craik
Spring is a virgin  Summer a mother  Autumn a widow  and Winter a stepmother.
— Polish proverb
There is a skeleton in every house.
— Anonymous
A man can hide all things  excepting twain -  That he is drunk  and that he is in love. 
— Antiphanes
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.
— Bible
Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.
— Bible
If you would wish another to keep your secret  first keep it yourself.
— Seneca
What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
— Chinese saying
Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk  and that he is in love.
— Antiphanes
Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.
— French proverb
It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.
— Oliver Franks
I know that's a secret  for it's whispered everywhere.
— William Congreve
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire  but my heart is all my own.
— Goethe
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets  for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
— Henry Taylor
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing  like a hidden physical defect.
— Isak Dinesen
Be secret and exult  Because of all things known That is most difficult.
— William Butler Yeats
If you wish to preserve your secret  wrap it up in frankness.
— Alexander Smith
Where secrecy reigns  carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.
— Daniel C. Gelman
Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light  and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
— Bible
Even in your thought  do not curse the king  nor in your bedchamber curse the rich  for a bird of the air will carry your voice  or some winged creature tell the matter.
— Bible
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller
Security is a false god  begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.
— Paul Bowles
God Himself is not secure  having given man dominion over His works.
— Helen Keller
The man who looks for security  even in the mind  is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
— Henry Miller
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
— Eudora Welty
If you want total security  go to prison. There you're fed  clothed  given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so  right in the middle of it we die  lose a leg  fall in love  drop a jar of applesauce.
— Natalie Goldberg
Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
— Alice James
Happiness  greatness  pride-nothing is secure  nothing keeps.
— Euripides
There is no security  no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago  we will do it again. Actually  every time we begin  we wonder how we ever did it before.
— Natalie Goldberg
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success.
— Robert Rawls
The way to be safe is never to be secure.
— Benjamin Franklin
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure  nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
— William Cowper
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
— Dag Hammarskjold
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years  but it has never been the motto of leaders.
— Anonymous
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge  experience and ability.
— Henry Ford
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
— John Cudahy
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament  not of income.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Security depends not so much upon how much you have  as upon how much you can do without.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Security is not the absence of danger  but the presence of God  no matter what the danger.
— Anonymous
I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me  the safest place is out on a limb.
— Shirley MacLaine
Man's security comes from within himself.
— Manly Hall
No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.
— Willa Cather
Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it  and they can't ever take that away from you.
— Mae West
Only those means of security are good  are certain  are lasting  that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Freedom works.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
To be on the alert is to live  to be lulled into security is to die.
— Oscar Wilde
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself  it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.
— David Sarnoff
Security is a kind of death.
— Tennessee Williams
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
— Dr. Harold W. Dodds
Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them  when I feel at ease  that I get worried.
— Mike Nichols
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
— Carl Jung
We hear of a silent generation  more concerned with security than integrity  with conforming than performing  with imitating than creating.
— Thomas J. Watson
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
— Mark Twain
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too  and that maketh him very wary.
— Lord Halifax
A sick man that gets talking about himself  a woman that gets talking about her baby  and an author that begins reading out of his own book  never know when to stop.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered  it is something moulded.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
— George Higgins
Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
— Phaedrus
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
— G. C. Lichtenberg
If you can't bite  don't show your teeth.
— Old saying
Know him  know me.
— Dizzy Gillespie
Man who man would be  must rule the empire of himself.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
No man does anything from a single motive.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because  however successful he may be in overcoming them  he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.
— W. H. Auden
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
— Sir Thomas Browne
What the collective age wants  allows and approves  is the perpetual holiday from the self.
— Thomas Mann
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
— John Ruskin
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?
— Rainer Maria Rilke
If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.
— George Santayana
With every physical pain  my moral fibre unravels a little.
— Mason Cooley
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
— Michel de Montaigne
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
— Cyril Connolly
One may understand the cosmos  but never the ego  the self is more distant than any star.
— G. K. Chesterton
We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.
— Dwight Morrow
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
— Hindu proverb
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
— Samuel Johnson
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.
— Charlotte Cushman
Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
— Frank J. Giblin
I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.
— Graham Sutherland
I am I plus my circumstances.
— Josi Ortega y Gasset
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
— George Eliot
I am as bad as the worst  but  thank God  I am as good as the best.
— Walt Whitman
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope  without friends  without books  even without music  as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
— Axel Munthe
If you really do put a small value upon yourself  rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
— Anonymous
If I am not for myself  who will be?
— Pirke Avot
The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.
— Ben Sweet
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
— Abraham J. Heschel
If you know nothing  be pleased to know nothing.
— John Newlove
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope  Self.
— Martin Luther
From without  no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves  unless some interior  responding wonder meets it.
— Herman Melville
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing  or very little  the shock can kill a man.
— Ernest Hemingway
Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man  I know of none more precious.
— William Hale White
When three people call you an ass  put on a bridle.
— Spanish proverb
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
— Bernard Berenson
A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.
— Kajetan von Schlaggenberg
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
— Blaise Pascal
To penetrate one's being  one must go armed to the teeth.
— Paul Valery
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.
— William Shakespeare
Self-reverence  self-knowledge  self-control - these three alone lead to sovereign power.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
There are limits to self-indulgence  none to self-restraint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The important thing is not what they think of me  it is what I think of them.
— Victoria, Queen of England
I think Dostoevsky was right  that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture  where he says  this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
— Rollo May
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us  And foolish notion.
— Robert Burns
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors  or to see themselves as others see them.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Self-command is the main elegance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I am better than my reputation.
— Friedrich von Schiller
Do I contradict myself? Very well  then I contradict myself  I am large  I contain multitudes.
— Walt Whitman
Be thine own palace  or the world's thy jail.
— John Donne
Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.
— Jewish proverb
I am as my Creator made me  and since He is satisfied  so am I.
— Minnie Smith
I live in the crowds of jollity  not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
— Samuel Johnson
I refuse to try to explain everything  because if you know too much about yourself  you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.
— Paul Wunderlich
Every man shall bear his own burden.
— Bible
I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.
— Edith Evans
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
— Goethe
I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.
— Dorothy Parker
I have been a selfish being all my life  in practice  though not in principle.
— Jane Austen
God knows  I'm no the thing I should be  Nor am I even the thing I could be.
— Robert Burns
In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is  never in this life is the making finished  always it is in process  always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.
— Bernard Lonergan
I'm a vague  conjunctured personality  more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
— Woodrow Wilson
to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best  night and day  to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight  and never stop fighting.
— e. e. cummings
My great mistake  the fault for which I can't forgive myself  is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
— Oscar Wilde
I have come back again to where I belong  not an enchanted place  but the walls are strong.
— Dorothy H. Rath
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
— Aldous Huxley
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself  but the most inconvenient one  too.
— Josh Billings
To know oneself  one should assert oneself.
— Albert Camus
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
— Mencius
Whatever you may be sure of  be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
— James Russell Lowell
All life is the struggle  the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities  my capacities.
— Josi Ortega y Gasset
My closest relation is myself.
— Terence
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself  and not by borrowing.
— Michel de Montaigne
You can succeed if nobody else believes it  but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
— William J. H. Boetcker
Cautious  careful people  always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing  never can bring about a reform.
— Susan B. Anthony
Everybody wants to do something to help  but nobody wants to be first.
— Pearl Bailey
It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh  it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment  even the worst moment  for all the riches in the world.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself  but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
— Stewart E. White
Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
— Kay Boyle
Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may  he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
— William Hazlitt
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
— Beverly Sills
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it  and if the world scoff  let it scoff-if it sneer  let it sneer.
— Lucy Stone
When people say: she's got everything  I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists  let alone its desirability  until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.
— Leontine Young
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of  but my own.
— Noel Coward
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men  whatever they say about you  good or bad  you are not because of it another man  for as you are  you are.
— Thomas a Kempis
In my business  you measure your respect by the enemies you make.
— Theo E. Colborn
Not knowing when the dawn will come  I open every door.
— Emily Dickinson
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
— Ethel Barrett
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken  made verbal and shared  even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
— Audre Lorde
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
— Mark Twain
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
— Dwight L. Moody
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
As soon as you trust yourself  you will know how to live.
— Johann von Goethe
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
— Oliver Goldsmith
From self alone expect applause.
— Marion L. Burton
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review  it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event  is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism  does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way  but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.
— Jean Kerr
You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside  but you cannot need for it to come from outside.
— Vladimir Zworykin
Next to God we are indebted to women  first for life itself  and then for making it worth living.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
— Edna Ferber
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs  but our mothers were Nightingales.
— Janet Flanner
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
— Bernard M. Baruch
I exist as I am  that is enough  If no other in the world be aware  I sit content  And if each and all be aware  I sit content.
— Walt Whitman
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
— Tallulah Bankhead
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive  the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
— Wendy Wasserstein
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders  but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.
— Raquel Welch
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude  for he shall not be disappointed.
— William Bennett
When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence  applaud yourself!
— Rusty Berkus
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
— Sandra Bierig
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.
— Whoopi Goldberg
Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.
— Anonymous
I am the only real truth I know.
— Jean Rhys
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng  but in ourselves  are triumph and defeat.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me  I've got to get out.
— Marlon Brando
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To make the choice for independent survival  the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.
— Joanna T. Steichen
I care not what others think of what I do  but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
— Theodore Roosevelt
I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.
— Louis L'Amour
Life  I fancy  would very often be insupportable  but for the luxury of self-compassion.
— George R. Gissing
The work praises the man.
— Irish proverb
Of all afflictions  the worst is self-contempt.
— Berthold Auerbach
If you must love your neighbor as yourself  it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
— Nicolas de Chamfort
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
— Ellen Sue Stern
I... know what I do  and am unmoved by men's blame  or their praise either.
— Robert Browning
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
— Margaret Anderson
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
— Sharon Begley
The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
— Sharon Begley
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
— Louise Bourgeois
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations  it shatters them.
— Arlene Croce
Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children  I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years  the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial  the alienation from the sources of our strength.
— Rachel Carson
You are unique  and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
— Martha Graham
The thing that makes you exceptional  if you are at all  is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
— Lorraine Hansbury
Everybody is talented  original  and has something important to say.
— Brenda Ueland
Cherish forever what makes you unique  'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
— Bette Midler
I didn't belong as a kid  and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset  then my early life would have been much easier.
— Bette Midler
Genius is expansive  irresistible  and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you  no cords can confine it.
— Gail Hamilton
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time  you are incomparable.
— Brenda Ueland
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight  seeing them as they are  without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.
— Maude Adams
Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.
— Lorraine Hansbury
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
— Rosa Luxemburg
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
— Denise Shekerjian
Art is the signature of civilizations.
— Beverly Sills
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops  or we can make music.
— Barbara Sher
If God had wanted me otherwise  He would have created me otherwise.
— Johann von Goethe
Love your self's self where it lives.
— Anne Sexton
I am what I am  so take me as I am!
— Johann von Goethe
Be content with what you are  and wish not change  nor dread your last day  nor long for it.
— Martial
Who I am is the best I can be.
— Leontyne Price
Oh  I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!
— Meg Ryan
Learn what you are and be such.
— Pindar
What thou art  that thou art.
— Thomas a Kempis
People remain what they are  even when their faces fall to pieces.
— Bertolt Brecht
The search for a new personality is futile  what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
— Cesare Pavese
I seldom think about my limitations  and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times  but it is vague  like a breeze among flowers.
— Helen Keller
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
— Coco Chanel
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself  in spite of being unacceptable.
— Paul Tillich
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
— Pearl Bailey
I'm not OK  you're not OK-and that's OK.
— William Sloane Coffin
All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not  to do something they cannot do.
— David Grayson
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
— Ingrid Bergman
Best be yourself  imperial  plain  and true!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She soothed and solaced and celebrated  destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.
— Martha Bacon
Borrowed thoughts  like borrowed money  only show the poverty of the borrower.
— Lady Marguerite Blessington
Every man must at last accept himself for his portion  and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.
— Charles A. Hawley
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Of all our infirmities  the most savage is to despise our being.
— Michel de Montaigne
Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
— Jean Anouilh
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
To find the good life you must become yourself.
— Dr. Bill Jackson
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Change occurs when one becomes what she is  not when she tries to become what she is not.
— Ruth P. Freedman
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
— Axel Munthe
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
— Goldie Hawn
Human beings aren't orchids  we must draw something from the soil we grow in.
— Sara Jeannette Duncan
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
— Lucille Ball
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
— Barbara Walters
A sobering thought: what if  right at this very moment  I am living up to my full potential?
— Jane Wagner
I long to see everything  to know everything  to learn everything!
— Marie Bashkirtseff
Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.
— Kathryn Murray
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball  and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board  and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
— William Feather
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand  know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all  accept these things.
— Albert Camus
I long to accomplish a great and noble task  but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
— Helen Keller
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
— Margaret Fontey
How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.
— Sue Atchley Ebaugh
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence  but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
— Anna Freud
If you want to be respected by others  the great thing is to respect yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If one is cruel to himself  how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
— Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may  he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
— William Hazlitt
To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
— Marie Leneru
No matter what age you are  or what your circumstances might be  you are special  and you still have something unique to offer. Your life  because of who you are  has meaning.
— Barbara De Angelis
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones  the thick ones  the ones with no doors in.
— Ursula K. LeGuin
Interest in the lives of others  the high evaluation of these lives  what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself  the value he attributes to his own being?
— Sherwood Anderson
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
— Wilma Pearl Mankiller
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
— William Hazlitt
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor  and vice versa.
— Dr. Karl Menninger
Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way  but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.
— William Klassen
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling  driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.
— Colleen Dewhurst
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself  he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.
— James A. Pike
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
— Anthony Trollope
To love others  we must first learn to love ourselves.
— Anonymous