Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them.… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
“Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle with myself, now I’m making out a case… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how we perceive ourselves. An… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
A person of strong character is willing to be modest,humble & true to self. He strives to remain committed to his endeavour… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person'… — Nick Haslam Copy Share Image
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
“Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“The organs of our own bodies, arms, hands, lungs, kidneys function as a cooperative in order to survive. Humans and animals and… — Ajhan Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths:… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
