Self Quotes - Page 439

I got to college and saw all of my friends going to these other schools and thought, 'You know, college is just a blank slate.' And I had an opportunity to go to different schools, but I chose Brown because it was unique and allowed you to be yourself as an individual and like I said, it's a blank slate.

When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

But finding a voice-let's be clear-is a political act. It defines a moment of presence, of being awake; and it involves not only self-understanding, but the ability to transmit that selfunderstanding to others...To experience yourself as "voiceless" is a definition of depression, subjugation, and being counted out. .

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.