Self Quotes
If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.
Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what’s most important. Then do those things first.
Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That’s what's really cute to me.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.
One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.
Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.
In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.