Our Self Quotes

234 quotes by 173 authors

We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more… — Chogyam Trungpa
We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more… — Brian Tracy
Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. — Rick Warren
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make… — Thomas Ligotti
Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence. — Francois Fenelon
This is our Lordâ€™s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray,… — Julian of Norwich
Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that… — K.P. Yohannan
We are dominated by everything with which our self is identified. We can dominate and control everything from which we disidentify ourselves. The normal mistake… — Roberto Assagioli
Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen… — Edmund Clowney
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob… — James Harvey Robinson
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which… — Aldous Huxley
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we… — Douglas Hofstadter
As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our… — Ken Wilber
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. — Ramana Maharshi
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external… — Nathaniel Branden
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain… — Nathaniel Branden
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness… — Stephen Covey
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule… — Timothy Keller
That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard… — Unknown Author
The simple act of helping someoneâ€”with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the… — Kevin Eikenberry

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