Quotes about Yourself
Aristotle called this land of attitude "enlightened selfishness." Zoroaster said, "Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness." And Benjamin Franklin summed it up very simply—"When you are good to others," said Franklin, "you are best to yourself.
— Dale Carnegie
And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.
— Mike Pence
The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.
— Maude Royden
Dreams are the seedlings of reality. Awake, arise and assert yourself you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in the ascendancy.
— Napoleon Hill
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
— Lucille Ball
Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.
— Winston Churchill
Sin and love are exact opposites. Love is benefiting others at the expense of yourself. Sin is benefiting yourself at the expense of others. Sin is selfishness; love is selflessness.
— Frank Viola
Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.
— Andy Stanley
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
— Lucille Ball
If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.
— Stephen Colbert
A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson