Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
If you are weak, suffering will follow you wherever you go. You will never find happiness if you don't challenge your weaknesses… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first! — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image
Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you. — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
“If you ask God what is all this? He will tell you that it is nothing. Everyone is experiencing their own karmas… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming…(some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve -… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
It's not usually anybody else's false when you don't get what you want. Sometimes it is. There's exceptions to everything. It's usually… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To say, "It used to be better," nobody can say, "Well, no it wasn't." It's like telling a story that is self-aggrandizing… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Liberation (moksha) cannot be attained by following a single viewpoint. Religion may be practiced by following a single viewpoint, but the essence… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Discovering the true self is not a product of invention and alteration. Rather, it’s a journey of assorted surprises followed by celebrations… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person. — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge… — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they… — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
“One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
![“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. [] If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion…” quote by Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00e/max-stirner-6556_barriers_whoever-will-be-free-must-make-himself-f_699179.jpg)
![“All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last week she’d created a magical Thermos with googly eyes that levitated around the room, yelling, “Exterminate! Exterminate!” until it…” quote by Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf1/rick-riordan-27_egyptian_all-sadie-s-previous-attempts-of-making_2736664.jpg)
