Self Quotes - Page 172

Obeying the Spirit instead of your own self-centered whims will lead you to places you've never been, challenge you in ways you have never been challenged, and invite levels of sacrifice you never dreamed you could make. This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.

People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps... sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

You can't hate anybody till you hate yourself and you can't love anybody till you love yourself.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.

Surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself!

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you