Self Quotes - Page 411

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

Help yourself, then God will also help you!

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

I love hearing my audience breathe.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.

What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I've always wanted to take self-defense classes and I never did, for whatever reason. I don't know why. I don't know if it was fear or time, or whatever stops people from doing things that they want to do.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

I aim my movies, as much as I can, at myself. I think that those movies have an interesting quality. They're very movieish. They are movie movies. Like I think Watchmen is a very self-aware movie. 300. Dawn of the Dead definitely. That's really where I've ended up.

If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.

It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an impassioned life. It is unethical not to attain greatness. It is unethical to succumb to the fear of envy and the conspiracy of mediocrity. It is unethical not to self-bestow genius. It is unethical not to be the first monkey.