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Self Quotes by Fulton J. Sheen
- So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and…
- Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act…
- Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.
- When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes…
- Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few…
- Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
- To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the…
- Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors…
- The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of…
- Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be…
- Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a…
- The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster