Self-respect, the corner-stone of all virtue. Sir John Herschel.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, / These three alone lead life to sovereign power. / Yet not for power (power of herself / Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, / Acting the law we live by without fear; / And, because right is right, to follow right, / Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence. Tennyson.
Self-trust is the essence of heroism. Emerson.
Self-trust is the first secret of success. Emerson. 15
Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. Cecil.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. Ward Beecher.
Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. Mme. Roland.
Selig der, den er im Siegesglanze findet—Happy he whom he (Death) finds in battle's splendour. Goethe.
Selig wer sich vor der Welt, / Ohne Hass 20 verschliesst, / Einen Freund am Busen hält / Und mit dem geniesst—Happy he who without hatred shuts himself off from the world, holds a friend to his bosom, and enjoys life with him. Goethe.
Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor, and follow me. Jesus.