Thyself Quotations

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Acquaint thyself with God.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

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

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried;Then ask God's help; it will not be denied.

One who knows thyself perfectly is blessed with enthusiasm without which success is impossible.

If one were to strip a person of the layers of outward masks and illusions and place them only in their own skin they would be overwhelmed with fear of the unknown. Know thyself and feed upon it's very existence, everything that needs to be known is within.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked: / For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.

Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which c

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

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

What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? / Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass / Among the Guests Star-scattered on the Grass, / And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot / Where I made one - turn down an empty Glass!

FIRST keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others. A peaceable man doth more good than a well-learned. A passionate man turneth even good into evil and easily believeth evil; a good, peaceable man converteth all things into good. He who dwelleth in peace is suspicious of none, but he who is discontented and restless is tossed with many suspicions, and is neither quiet himself nor suffereth others to be quiet. He often saith what he ought not to say, and omitteth what it were more expedient for him to do. He considereth to what duties others are bound, and neglecteth those to which he is bound himself. Therefore be zealous first over thyself, and then mayest thou righteously be zealous concerning thy neighbour.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: / (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) / Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? / Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? / Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

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

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

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

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

Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

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

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

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

Pardon others often, thyself never.

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

If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.

Make thyself perfect; others, happy.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

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

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

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

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.

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

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Renew thyself completely each day.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

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

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

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.

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.

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