As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Vladimir Lenin

He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher