Self Quotes

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It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and… — Judith Jamison
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited… — Khalil Gibran
I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our… — Gretchen Rubin
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. — Karl Barth
Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share… — Rosalynn Carter
Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government… — Charles Koch
The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an… — William E. Rees
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference. — Karl Jaspers
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. — Vernon Howard
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate… — William Butler Yeats
. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -… — Carl Sagan
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own,… — Steve Perry
When we give up our goals and concentrate diligently on the practices of our lives, we increase self-mastery and move toward the invisible universe, toward… — Gerald Epstein
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into… — Carolyn Heilbrun
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make… — Robert Grudin
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world — Ramana Maharshi
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego,… — Kenny Smith

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