Thyself Quotes - Page 15

• Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Perfect

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hurt, Comfort, Worthy

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• Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Successful, Horde, Imitator

  "Thoughts and Aphorisms". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1913.

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• I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Self, Done, Lasts

  'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 2 'Lost Days'

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• God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Karma, Men

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• The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Communication, Heart

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• What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

  Akhenaton

  Sadness, Mind, Fields

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• Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

  Felix Adler

  Karma

  Felix Adler (1921). “The Standard”

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• Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. Are not the enemies made by truth, better than the friends obtained by flattery?

  Akhenaton

  Friendship, Truth, Hatred

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• 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

  Character, Men, Rely Upon

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• Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

  Akhenaton

  Pain, Revenge, Men

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

  Menander

  People, Know Thyself, Wells

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• Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

  Francis Bacon

  Attitude, Boost Self Esteem, Boost Self Confidence

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Wisdom for a Man's Self'.

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• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

  Francis Quarles

  Book, Men, Distasteful

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.39

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• To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Mean, Instinct, Know Thyself

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• And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Science, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.83

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• Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.378, Library of America

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• Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

  Paul the Apostle

  Men, Law, Bears

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• Physician, heal thyself.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Doctors, Medicine, Physicians

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• Praise thyself never.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Praise

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• To know thyself--in others self-concern;
  Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Self, Concern, Knows

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• Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Eye, Grace

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• Pardon others often, thyself never.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pardon

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• Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;
  Corruption wins not more than honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Honesty, Hate

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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