Thyself Quotes

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin

Others, Eat, Please

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
Benjamin Franklin

Often, Deceived, Thee

Observe all men, thyself most.
Benjamin Franklin

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatest, Gift, Portion

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius

Friendship, Contract

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Marcus Aurelius

Change, Nature, Nothing

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Away, Knew, Run

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius

Life, Give, Last

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine

Heart, Until, Quiet

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn

Trust, Another, Betray

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras

Light, Star, Above

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide

Become, Ugly, Himself

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
Thomas Fuller

Wife, Thou, Thy

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope

God, Study, Mankind

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
George McGovern

Love, Old, Born

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
Thomas Aquinas

Work, Wise, Sometimes

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert

Everyone, Indulge, Charitable

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne

Society, Alone, Able

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
Jean de La Fontaine

Help, Heaven, Thee

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus

True, Injustice, Suffer

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Ieyasu Tokugawa

Despair, Natural, Room

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
Francis Quarles

Faith, God, Charity

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas a Kempis

God, Knowledge, Learning

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
Julia Child

Love, Religion, God

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
Edward Young

Despise, Revere

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
Ieyasu Tokugawa

Find, Others, Rather

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold

Himself, Misery, Resolve

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
Akhenaton

Change, Men, Action

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

May, Teach, Strengthen

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'
Menander

Good, Saying, Others

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