The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Our success at friendship, business, sports, love--indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt--is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory"… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I smil'd to my self at the sight of this money, O drug! said I aloud, what art thou good for? Thou… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new;… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“The Self (Atma) has infinite energy, similarly the energy of the non-Self complex (pudgal) is also infinite. It is through the energy… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I hate that you don't have the insight. I hate that you shamelessly returned despite being kicked out. I hate that you… — Cho Gun-woo Copy Share Image
in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Self-deport? What the heck does that mean? I have no doubt Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign. But now there's an… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly. I saw most of Congress as… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“It is frightening to step off onto the treacherous footbridge leading to the second half of life. We can’t take everything with… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart,… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
“When you go to high school, and you're trying to figure yourself out, sometimes it takes doing things that you don't like… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“reservation, n. There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Prayer is a means of sharing the burden, which relieves pressure, as you tell your worries and concerns to someone who will… — Lucinda Bassett Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything… — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
