I firmly believe there is no such thing as a self-made man. I'm certainly no different. I have great people that have… — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Shamanism is not a religion. It’s a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman’s path… — Hank Wesselman Copy Share Image
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end… — Kandi Dougherty Copy Share Image
The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days.… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent… — William James Copy Share Image
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“The ‘egoism’ that is used to hurt others will hurt one’s own self. The ‘egoism’ that is used to give happiness to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Were goning through a self-evaluation offensively, not only to see what our deficiencies are, but to see the strengths we have. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was:… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem,… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“When you self-sabotage, you undermine yourself and act in ways that dishonor your mind, body and soul, and ultimately weaken you.” — Tanesia Harris Copy Share Image
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image