Thyself Quotes

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

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

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

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

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

Renew thyself completely each day.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

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

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

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.

Everything that thou reprovest in another,
thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat.,
Omnia quae vindicaris in altero,
tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Pardon others often, thyself never.

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

Know thyself because what else is there to know?

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.

Acquaint thyself with God.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]

All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.