Thyself Quotes - Page 10

• Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Students, Prudence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.65

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• Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Thinking, Firsts, Conscious

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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

  Bias of Priene

  Government, Law, Empires

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• Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid
  thyself of, when thou wilt.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Grief, Causes, Opinion

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

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• Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Principles, Doe, Tranquility

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Metamorphosis, Corruption

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 19. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Know thyself because what else is there to know?

  Sarah Connor

  Know Thyself, Knows

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• Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear;
  'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear.
  Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear,
  But what thou art.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Art, Soul, Crowds

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• Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

  Tyler Oakley

  Wrecks, Checks

  "What Tyler Oakley Taught Me About Being a ‘Man’" by Jackson Barnett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2014.

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• A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Kissing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.71

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• A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Mind, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Mirrors, Flattery

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.400, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Identity, Nerves

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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• Though thou loved her as thyself,
  As a self of purer clay,
  Tho' her parting dims the day,
  Stealing grace from all alive,
  Heartily know,
  When half-gods go,
  The gods arrive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Self, Grace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “An Emerson Calendar”

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• Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

  John Ruskin

  Self, Knowing God, Knows

  John Ruskin (1860). “Modern Painters”, p.204

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• If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Work, Busy, Thee

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

  Saadi

  Pride, Ancestry, Virtue

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• Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

  Saadi

  People, Evil, Gossip

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• Help thyself, and God will help thee.

  George Herbert

  Helping, Thee, Gods Will

  George Herbert (1871). “The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled Jacula Prudentum”, p.239

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• There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

  Rumi

  Self, Lust, Desire

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• The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.

  Francis Quarles

  Philosophy, Height, Know Thyself

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• A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Vanity, Thee, Preserves

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.490

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• Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Stranger, Retiring

  'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' (1870) ch. 4

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• Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

  Alexander Wilson

  Thinking, Ideas, Fields

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• The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore, love of companion is governed, in part, by esteem of self.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Self Esteem, Two, Lord

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