Proverbs on Self

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self......Aristotle

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - Learn to manage and control yourself.....William Boetcker

Never mind what the "people" think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself........William Boetcker

Every main is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.......John Chrysostom

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. It is the mental concept that he externalizes with the help of paint and canvas. If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? How do you appear to yourself? Is the picture one you think worth painting? You are what you think you are? You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind. What you are advertises what you think.......Thomas Dreier

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves...Rudolf Driekurs

The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself......Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most to yourself, for that is all there is to you.........Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before an egg can grow into a chicken, it must first totally cease to be an egg. Each think must lose its original identity before it can be something else. Therefore, before a thing is transformed into something else, it must come to a level of no-thingness........Perle Epstein

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you......B.C.Forbes

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals......Benjamin Franklin

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give........Kahlil Gibran

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.......Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings towards other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you are not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.....Sydney Harris

What lives behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us....Oliver Wendell Holmes

Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.....Helen Keller

Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or alound, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind......Grenville Kleiser

We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves........Mark Twain

Know Thyself.......Socrates