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self departure modesty
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. Arthur Conan Doyle
self vision world
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self. Baha'u'llah
self machines schwarzenegger
One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines. Arnold Schwarzenegger
self-esteem lying matter
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. Azar Nafisi
self-esteem self-confidence men
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Ayn Rand
self-esteem fighting soul
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.
self self-respect quests
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
self-esteem reality men
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.
self discipline training
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do. Audie Murphy
virtue masters prudence
There must be in prudence also some master virtue. Aristotle
virtue martyr preacher
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Romain Rolland
virtue circumstances prudence
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. John Milton
virtue offense rejecting
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it. Marilynne Robinson
virtue christ easy
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life. John Stuart Mill
virtue goddess getting-along
Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. John Ruskin
virtue nobility
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also. Gary Zukav
virtue ifs wrongdoing
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. Euripides