God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mohandas Gandhi

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson