Best Practical Quotes on Self-Love
Hamlet on your own self
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
D'Israeli on Self-Love
Self-love is a principle of action, but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as though the whole sensitive family of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character of Men of Genius.
George Eliot on Self-love
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot—Adam Bede
Goethe on self-love
He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Goethe—Spruche in Prosa. III.
C.G. Jung on accepting yourself
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” C.G. Jung
Hazlitt on Self-love
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others and exacts it in return from them.Hazlitt—Table Talk.
La Rochefoucauld
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
La Rochefoucauld—Maxima.
Mme. de Maintenon
Behold the fine appointment he makes with me; that man never did love anyone but himself.
Mme. de Matntenon, when Louis XIV.
Milton on Self-esteem
Self-esteem grounded on just and right Well managed.
Milton—Paradise Lost.
Pascal on egoism
Egoism is hateful.Pascal
Pope on the observer
To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for the observer's sake.Pope—Moral Essays.
Pythagoreans. on self-respect
But respect yourself most of all.
Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans.
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Rostand—Chanticleer.
Othello. on self-love
O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found a man that knew how to love himself. Othello.
Henry V on self-neglect
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.
Henry V. Act II.
Terence on his own interest
I am the most concerned about my own interests.
Terence—Andria
Offended self-love
Offended self-love never forgives.
Vizee—Les Aveux Difficihs
Voltaire on Self-love
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind:—it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire—Philosophical Dictionary
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