If I am not for myself, who will be?

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

— Denis Waitley

Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively.

— Ruben Papian

“The worldly [spiritual] science is methodic (kramic) in nature; one progresses “step by step”; one has to ascent one step at a time. Whereas…

— Dada Bhagwan

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

— Martha Gellhorn

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one…

— Dada Bhagwan

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

— Marianne Williamson

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve…

— Daniel H. Pink

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

— Thomas Sowell

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next…

— Robert Reed

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

— Angela Duckworth

The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

— Ernest Becker