Be Yourself Quotes

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot."

"The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him."

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

"Philosophy is the science of truth."

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

"Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it."

"It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great."

"To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous."

"But to be hanged—is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself."

"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater."

"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."

"The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free."

"For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness."

"Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody."

"Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around."

"The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself."

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous."

"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil."

"How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?"

"It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature."

"Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks."

"Tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, because the former want only slaves, and the latter a play-thing."

"Virtue can only flourish amongst equals."

"We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel."

"You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on."

"A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice."

"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

"Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God."

"Virtue is debased by self-justification."

"We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth."

"None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is."

"There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness."