Self Quotes - Page 218

I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so that they can actually be in a fiduciary capacity where the artist comes first or the client, whoever the client happens to be.

If you practice Yoga for small, selfish reasons, you will remain the same, bound by your beliefs about what you can and cannot do. Let go and offer your effort to limitless potential. Dedicate yourself to the happiness of all beings.

A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory.

Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than we are of how we need to change. Salvation for our educational ills is only secondarily "out there." Primarily it will have to come from within an educational community willing to say that we have met the enemy and it is us.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls?

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

[N]ever stop being yourself.

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor.

Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . . people with good self-control mainly use it not for rescue in emergencies but rather to develop effective habits and routines in school and at work.

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.