* I have played the fool, the rude fool, believing that the chest of a friend would harbor a secret that mine could not contain. Massinger.
* The secret is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been accomplished by concealing our own intentions than by uncovering those of our enemy. Colton.
* Generally perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of God, – part of that glory in which man should not press too bravely. Bacon.
* I will rule my life and my thoughts as if the whole world saw the one and read the other; because what does it mean to do something in secret for my neighbor, when all our intimacies are open to God? Seneca.
* The secret of the design, when combined with the speed of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire for our friends, an overwhelming and impenetrable cloud of darkness for our enemies . Colton.
* Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism. From Quincey.
* For the forms of faith, let the fanatics without grace fight; your can’t be wrong whose life is right. Dad.
* He who relies on his own strength will never stand. Thomas Brooks.
* How easy it is for men to be puffed up with admiration for their own strength and glory, and to rise so high that they lose sight of the ground from which they rose and the hand that carried them forward. Bishop Hall.
* A man had to fear this above all, he does not fear at all. Thomas Brooks.
* Presumption is a compelling quality and will sometimes lower the scale when there is nothing else on it. It magnifies a fault beyond all proportion and turns every omission into an outrage. Jeremy Collier.
* And yet we are very likely to be full of ourselves, rather than the One who did what we value so much, but for whom we can have no reason to value ourselves. Because we have nothing that we can call our own, no, we are not ourselves; because we are almost tenants, and also at will, of the great Lord of ourselves and of the rest of this great farm, the world in which we live. William Penn.
* Those who, either because of their own commitments and haste in business, or out of indolence, or out of presumption and vanity, have neglected to look outside of themselves, as far as my experience and observation reaches, since then they have not only stopped move forward, and improve in their performances, but have regressed. They can be compared to men who have lived up to their principle (rather than their principles!), Until they are reduced to begging and run out of resources. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
* Self-confidence is a petty pride in our own narrowness or an understanding of our duty and privilege as children of God. Phillips Brooks.
* The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, which does not arise from presumption, but from an intense identification of man with his object, which elevates him completely above the fear of danger and death. , which gives his company a character of madness at first glance, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity at will. EP Whipple.
* More powerful is he who has himself in his power. Seneca.
* What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe.
* No man is so victorious as he who has defeated himself. Beecher.
* He who reigns in himself and governs passions, desires and fears, is more than a king. Milton.
* Make up your mind to know yourself; and he knows that he who finds himself loses his misery. Matthew Arnold.
* He is a fool who cannot get angry; but he is a wise man who does not want to. English proverb.
* It is through patience, perseverance and tolerance that much of what is good in humanity and women is shown. Arthur helps.
* You can never do better conquest than to arm your constant and noblest parts against vertiginous and vague suggestions. Shakespeare.
* It is not the man who is beside himself, but the man who is serene and serene, who is master of his countenance, his voice, his actions, his gestures, every part of his game, who can work. over others to your liking. Diderot.
* Over time you have no power; you have not been given to redeem a world sunk in dishonesty; only over a man in him do you have an absolutely absolute and uncontrollable power; It redeems it, it makes it honest. Carlyle.
* Self-denial is the quality of which Jesus Christ set the example. Ary Scheffer.
* Pure self-denial is the hand of our good angel that closes the doors of sin. Abbe Mullois.
* Self-denial is essential to strong character, and the highest class of it comes only from a religious stock, – from an awareness of obligation and dependence on God. Theodore Parker.
* Only the soul that with overwhelming impulse and perfect confidence surrenders forever to the lives of others. [people]Find the delight and peace that such total surrender has to give. Phillips Brooks.
* Self-denial does not belong to religion as a characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you try to ascend to a higher sphere. Beecher.
* The lives of men who have always been growing are strewn throughout their entire course with the things they have learned to do without. Phillips Brooks.
* The only conclusive proof of a man’s sincerity is that he gives himself on principle. Words, money, everything else, are relatively easy to give away; But when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is clear that the truth, whatever it may be, has got hold of him. Lowell.
* We are so small and vain that the esteem of five or six people around us is enough to satisfy us and have fun. Pascal.
* I look at the too good opinion that man has of himself to be the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private. Montaigne.
* What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the little man seeks is in others. Confucius.
* Although we are not always asked to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to be suspicious of ourselves. Whately.
* A man generally has the good or bad qualities that he attributes to humanity. Shenstone.
* Whatever you don’t like about someone else, be careful to correct it in yourself with gentle reprimand. Sprat.
* How will we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do your duty; then you will know what is in you. Goethe.
* It belongs to all great nature, when he is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestionable emotion, to suspect himself and doubt the truth of his own impressions, aware of possibilities beyond his own horizon. George Eliot.
* We should call each other every night to an account: what disease have I mastered today? What passion opposed? What temptation did you resist? What virtue did he acquire? Our vices will disappear by themselves if you take them every day to the secretary. Seneca.
* Let us never be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are aware of our faults that we are the most evil; on the contrary, we are less so. We see in a brighter light; and let us remember, to our comfort, that we never perceive our sins until we begin to heal them. Fenelon.
* No grace can save a man if he does not help himself. Beecher.
* The power of self-help is what distinguishes man from animals; which is the divine element, or contains in itself the divine element, of its constitution. JG Holland.
* Do not be in the desire for your own comfort. Saadi.
* Offended self-love never forgives. Vizee.
* It is difficult to persuade humanity that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. Pica.
* To be selfish is to sacrifice the noblest for the meanest ends and to be sordidly content. Alto R. Haweis.
* Don’t worry about anyone but yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. CH Spurgeon.
* Each one wants his own benefit, before that of the others. Terrence.
* The love we have for ourselves provides another wide range of prejudices. Dr. Watts.
* It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think that people they love have nothing to do but please them. Dad.
* The selfish person suffers more from their selfishness than the one to whom that selfishness denies some important benefit. Emerson.
* Absolute selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A selfish heart for the fight for wealth is like a citadel raided in war, completely shattered. Beecher.
* Take selfishness out of this world and there will be more happiness than we should know what to do. HW Shaw.
* No man is very pleased with a partner who does not increase, in some respect, his affection for himself. Dr. Johnson.
* The very heart and root of sin is in an independent spirit. We erect the idol self; and not only wish others to worship, but to worship ourselves. Richard Cecil.
* There are those who think that everyone should share their misfortune, although they do not share the sufferings of anyone else. Achille Poincelot.
* Self-interest, that leprosy of the time, has attacked us since childhood, and we are startled to observe the little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect. Mrs. De Girardin.
* The essence of true nobility is self-neglect. Let the thought of yourself come in, and the beauty of a great deed will fade, like the blooming of a dirty flower. Froude.
* How often, in this cold and bitter world, the warm heart throws itself upon itself! Cold, careless, we are of the pain of another; We wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness EL Landon.
* Like the frost on the bud and the plague on the flower, yet it is self-interest for friendship; because trust cannot dwell where selfishness is the gatekeeper to the door. Tupper.
* The kindest people are the ones who least hurt the self-esteem of others. Heather.
* No man should separate himself from his own individuality and become that of another. Channing.
* Great is the strength of an individual soul faithful to its high confidence; powerful it is even for the redemption of a world. Ms. Child LM.
* Play the cards, whatever they are, the best you can. Bulwer-Lytton.
* Do not forget that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and finds his reward in exercising them, will generally find himself ill. Goethe.
* It is for small souls, who walk under the weight of affairs, not knowing how clearly to disassociate themselves, and not knowing how to put them aside and take them up again. Montaigne.
* They are the weakest, no matter how strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. Bovee.
* The human mind, to the extent that it is deprived of external resources, diligently strives to find in itself the means of happiness, learns to confidently trust its own efforts, and gains with greater certainty the power to be happy. Zimmerman.
*[We] they were born to succeed, not to fail. Thoreau.
* For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or what is close to it, depend on himself, and not on other men, on whose good or bad actions they are forced to depend on their own actions, I say: you have adopted the best plan to live happily. This is the moderate man; This is the man of manly character and wisdom. Plato.
* Respect for oneself governs morality: Respect for others governs our behavior. Sure
* Having respect for ourselves guides our morals: and having a deference for others governs our manners. Tern.
* Those who are entering the great theater of life cannot be urged to a more important duty than simple loyalty to their best convictions. Chapin.
* A man can dispense with his own approval in much of society, but he must go to great lengths to obtain it when he lives alone. Sydney Smith.
* It has been said that self-respect is the door to heaven, and the most superficial observation shows that a certain degree of reserve greatly increases the latent strength of character. Tuckerman.