Quotes of Self - somelinesforyou

“ Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power. ”

- Lord Tennyson

“ Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. ”

- William Hale White

“ One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Self-awareness is a key to self-acceptance, which drives self-motivation and self-fulfillment. ”

- Stedman Graham

“ The greatest success, is successful self acceptance. ”

- Ben Sweet

“ Self-command is the main elegance. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ”

- Abraham J. Heschel

“ There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination. ”

- Mencius

“ Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves. ”

- W.E.B. Du Bois

“ Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ”

- Clint Eastwood

“ Self-observation is the groundwork for self-knowledge, and it is self-knowledge that effects change. ”

- Elizabeth O’Connor

“ The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful — because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. ”

- Blum Ralph

“ Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. ”

- Millicent Fenwick

“ Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. ”

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“ 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. ”

- Sir Richard Francis Burton

“ In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ When people contribute to your sense of self-worth and self-esteem, they give you more than money can buy. ”

- Miley Phipps

“ For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great. ”

- Abe Fortas

“ Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ”

- Toni Cade Bambara

“ Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision. ”

- Unknown

“ The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search. ”

- Nathaniel Branden
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