No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Robert E. Lee

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Victor Hugo

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates

A man by himself is in bad company.
Eric Hoffer

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Victor Hugo

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell