Self Quotes

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Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming. — John McCain
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control. — Ashleigh Brilliant
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse… — Augustus William Hare
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with… — Sri Chinmoy
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to… — Gail Sheehy
I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. — Dwight L. Moody
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. — Jean Guitton
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. — Katherine Anne Porter
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. — Thomas Browne
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can… — John D. MacDonald
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. — Christina Rossetti
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. — Gail Sheehy
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. — Antonio Porchia
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy
When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a… — Abraham Lincoln
The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance — Unknown Author
Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking. — Mike Hulme

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