Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? — William Law Copy Share Image
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
When looking at the mirror, don't look at your face alone, but also look at your heart because that's where your beauty… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law,… — John Major Copy Share Image
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die.… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
“It is the thought that the least efficient way of of finding either happiness or pleasure is to pursue them. Put in… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed. — William Damon Copy Share Image
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence. — Don Shula Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness.” — Kathryn V. White Copy Share Image
“If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“In a loud world, we begin to lose our sense of self, not because it's missing, but because we can no longer… — Egbearor Favour Copy Share Image
I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise. — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
