Self Quotes - Page 85

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.

Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.

I find myself only by losing myself.

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

Happiness is not a limited resource. So help yourself, and there will be plenty left for everyone else.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

Until you value yourself, you can't expect anyone else to do so.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.