Self Quotes - Page 124

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.

Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.

Sometimes one barely understand oneself.

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed