For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W. H. Auden
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
Red Auerbach
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces... →
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently... →
Sri Aurobindo
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
Saint Teresa of Avila
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His... →
When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
George Ayittey
Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was... →
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the... →
Irving Babbitt