Quotes about self
self evident ifs
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident. Mahatma Gandhi
self examination groups
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
self interest suppression
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
self civilization village
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
self violence defence
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
self acting force
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.
self government purification
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
selfish men purpose
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
self satisfaction needs
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
self denial alive
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
self discipline leader
Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception. John C. Maxwell
self giving influence
..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.
self people able
People are never able to outperform their self-image.
selfish making-a-difference church
If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.
self-esteem people desire
If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.
self ignorant hens
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. Johannes Tauler
self joy servant-leadership
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living. James Hunter
selfish thinking shoes
Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes. James Scott
self sensual life-is
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual James Russell Lowell
self restraint clear
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
self people four
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. James Q. Wilson
self inner-peace peaceful
The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria. James Redfield
self land independence
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency. James H. Douglas
self-esteem passion ideas
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened. James Harvey Robinson
self errors groups
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
self interesting
There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.
self giving thank-god
You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that. James Fox
self musical doe
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting. James Fenton
self soapbox world
I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician. Liberace
self matter spirit
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become. Libba Bray
self risk independence
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good. Friedrich August von Hayek
self-esteem heaven hell
I am my own heaven and hell! Friedrich Schiller
self concern knows
To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!