Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Brian Tracy

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
Ann Coulter

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl Marx

I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
Leo Buscaglia

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.
Steve Martin

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt