Quotes about Self
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
- Mark Twain
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
- Henry Ford
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.
- Jay-Z