It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings

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

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley

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

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

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
Vera Wang

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

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

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens

A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Denis Waitley

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston

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

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne