True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
Henry Miller

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Rabindranath Tagore

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Milton Friedman

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen

Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
Angelina Jolie

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.
Charles Spurgeon

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.
Rick Santorum

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus Garvey

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
Marcel Proust

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley