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- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the…
- A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
- Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.…
- Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
- The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the…
- A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
- Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index…
- Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
- We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,…
- Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
- A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
- Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
- The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
- Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
- Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
- Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
- The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
- It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in…
- And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
- We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
- The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
- What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
- A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality
- Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
- Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
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- 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