For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I believe in the importance of seeking self-knowledge. The more I know myself, the more I feel empowered. — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that… — Seth Copy Share Image
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation.… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“They said that you would never make it, but you did. They said that you would quit, but you persevered and fought… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
Shiv Sena is taking on the government for people's issues and not for self- interest. We will continue to fight with the… — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. — John Galt Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.' — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free — Trevor Hall Copy Share Image
...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Who doesn’t allow one to attain the ultimate liberation? The pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body). Similarly, what doesn’t let a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so,… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
