Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“She wanted to leave her noisy questing “self” behind in that pool—not by tumbling in, like Narcissus, but by rising up. The… — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new.… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves… — Annalee Skarin Copy Share Image
What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while… — John Owen Copy Share Image
You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again. — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of… — Fred Couples Copy Share Image
Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred,… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing,… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around… — Natalie Kusz Copy Share Image
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
