The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
My mom says you only need three people you can rely on to achieve self-actualization. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same. — Penelope Mitchell Copy Share Image
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The Knowledge in which no doubt (shanka) is placed is known as doubtfree Knowledge (nihshank Gnan). Nishank Gnan is Knowledge of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
