Self Quotes

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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self... — Robin Morgan
The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously… — Neale Donald Walsch
Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few… — Derrick Bell
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to… — Lewis Mumford
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. — Confucius
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. — Andrew Carnegie
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit… — B. C. Forbes
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to… — James C. Collins
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been… — Calvin Coolidge
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This… — Calvin Coolidge
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights… — Ronald Reagan
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution… — James Madison
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent… — Thomas Jefferson
We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can… — James Madison
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations… — Woodrow Wilson
It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for… — Thomas Jefferson
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which… — Ronald Reagan

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