Thyself Quotes

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

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.

Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate.

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

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

Renew thyself completely each day.

Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.

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

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither let it be afraid.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

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

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.

O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

Praise thyself never.

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

Forget thyself to marble.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?