self Quotes

“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“The aim of life is self-development.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship

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“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

― William Shakespeare, King Lear

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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Things do not change; we change.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“I'd rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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