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self Quotes
- A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity....
- A friend is, as it were, a second self. ...
- A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ...
- Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form...
- All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. ...
- All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ...
- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted...
- Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is...
- As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self...
- Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement. ...
- Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It...
- But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each...
- Censor: a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business. ...
- Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt...
- Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs....
- Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by...
- Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to...
- Courage consists of the power of self-recovery. ...
- Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to...
- Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. ...
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright...
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ...
- Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the...
- Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is...
- Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune. ...
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ...
- Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune. ...
- Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. ...
- God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve...
- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain...
- He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always...
- He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator. ...
- Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind. ...
- How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not...
- How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith...
- Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the...
- Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self; it is no humility for a man to think...
- I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is...
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is...
- I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit...
- I have great faith in fools - self confidence my friends call it. ...
- I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body...
- I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the...
- I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told...
- Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case,...
- If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self only,...
- If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ......
- If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to...
- If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which...
- If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. ...
- If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you...
- If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find...
- In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable...
- In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned....
- In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. ...
- In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with...
- Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he...
- It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To...
- It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education...
- It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. ...
- Let us be very careful not to fall into the trap of the world. The world views things only...
- Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire....
- Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at...
- Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of...
- Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of...
- Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are...
- Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had...
- Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul...
- Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect....
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect....
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect....
- Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel...
- Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ...
- Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ...
- One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy...
- One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact: that we know...
- One's own self conquered is better than all other people. ...
- Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human...
- Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you...
- Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves,...
- Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke...
- Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation...
- Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith. ...
- People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. ...
- People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something...
- People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent...
- People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem...
- Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being. ...
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with...
- Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image...
- Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. ...
- Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. ...
- Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. ...
- Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself....
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. ...
- Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting. ...
- Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and...
- Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the...
- Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this...
- Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ...
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ...
- Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not Self, thyself is in itself without a body, and...
- Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to...
- Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ...
- Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by...
- That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is...
- The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should...
- The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the...
- The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants...
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous - on the...
- The definition of success - To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children;...
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that...
- The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above...
- The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of...
- The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self...
- The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this...
- The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the...
- The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit. ...
- The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and...
- The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. ...
- The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act...
- The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. [Men] measure the esteem of each other by what each has,...
- The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace. ...
- The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself,...
- The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self;...
- The spirit is the true self. ...
- The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from...
- The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their...
- The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences...
- The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the...
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life Is the source from which self-respect springs. ...
- The wise should surrender speech in mind, mind in the knowing self, the knowing self in the Spirit of...
- The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. ...
- The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace,...
- The worst of all deceptions is self-deception. ...
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as...
- There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame...
- There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to...
- There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self... Go forward to a...
- There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who...
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self....
- (Think of one's self as a teakettle) : Though up to it's neck in hot water, It continues to...
- This above all: TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE. And it must follow as the night the day, thou...
- This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth...
- Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window...
- To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot - and the world...
- To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it;...
- To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in...
- To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to...
- To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. ...
- To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive...
- Total self-esteem requires total and unconditional acceptance of yourself. You are a unique and worthy individual, regardless of your...
- True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to...
- True nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ...
- We are living in a day of self-seeking and irresponsibility, even in Christian circles. Few indeed are the Christian...
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their...
- We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely...
- We would like to apologize for the way in which politicians are represented in this presentation. It was never...
- What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful?...
- What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. ...
- When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, To know one's self. And what was easy, To advise...
- When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an...
- Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring...
- Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important. ...
- Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about...
- Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love. ...
- You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is...
- Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation. ...
- Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt....
- Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with...
- Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive...
- Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your...
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