Self Quotes - Page 167

It's easy to see and notice what we like in other people. Sometimes, it's not as easy to see the attributes and beauty in ourselves. It's good to see the beauty in others. But sometimes, take a moment and get excited when you notice what's beautiful in yourself, too.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth, or heal our sick planet, is evidence of our immense capacity for self delusion. Rather, we need to protect ourselves from ourselves.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of time, thought, and energy.

It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

The inner music of the Soul is the real song. It's tunes are self-existing and self-supporting and need no outer aids of hands, feet or tongue and lead to the source from whence they come, the Minstrel divine.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.