Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. Bovee.
Self-interest, that leprosy of the age, attacks us from infancy, and we are startled to observe little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect. Mme. de Girardin.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Goethe.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our 5 virtues. Goethe.
Self-love is a balloon inflated with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it. Voltaire.
Self-love is not so vile a sin / As self-neglecting. Henry V., ii. 4.
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation. Voltaire.
Self-love may be, and as a fact often is, the first impulse that drives a man to seek to become morally and religiously better. J. C. Sharp.
Self loves itself best. Pr. 10
Self-murder! name it not; our island's shame! Blair.