Quotes about Self

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

I is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

I will write, she had said, what I enjoy writing.

You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.

We'll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

What we do flows from who we are.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as good a one as himself anywhere." Except sometimes," replied Morris Bolter, assuming the air of a man of the world. "Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know." Don't believe that!" said the Jew. "When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend; not because he's careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! Pooh! There ain't such a thing in nature.