Self Quotes - Page 242

Be fearless in your choices and don't be afraid to be yourself!

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.

People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

The self is made, not given

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It's both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master.

Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement.

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . "Old age" should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.

If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.