Self Quotes - Page 182

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….

The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from the attention they deserve and the respect they are entitled to. nothing must ever lead to a person to compromise this principle or faith in favor of a political strategy aimed at saving or protecting a community from some peril. The freely offered, sincere heart of a poor, powerless individual is worth a thousand times more in the sight of God than the assiduously courted, self-interested heart of a rich one.

It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

I hate myself for liking you.

The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.