The Self Quotes
When you refuse to entertain the possibility of a solution because you “know” it will not work, then you have successfully strengthened the problem at hand
...he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it
No great thing could ever be achieved without encouragement.
If you spend enough time with someone who doubts you, you can't help but believe them.
Your character is a blueprint of who you are. People access and determine your pre-qualifications, assents and mode of thinking through the character you cough out.
--a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master.
You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.
It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?
A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.
Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.
Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.
I searched for a deeper existence. What I found was myself. The next moment the journey towards self discovery began all over again.
If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place.
To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge—we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.
You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self.
You made the choices that brought you to this place in life. But the thing about choices is that you can always make new ones. Choose to change your life.
Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.
More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.
All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.
Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.
To know God begins with knowing ourselves, our true selves, whom we uncover as we make choices that help us step beyond the influence of the ego.
There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.
You truly help others working on yourself. Remember that the only power you have is over your own choices. You simply have no power to choose for others unless they allow you to.
In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.
Practical management of your time includes taking responsibility of your choices.
A man of wisdom faces it all and makes his choices that actually can change a lot of things.
We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.
Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.