Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it “just being you”.

Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

In real self-giving we are inspired. Whether they acknowledge us or not is not important.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

Music study presents a natural, here-and-now route to selfknowledge and self-integration.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.

You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

I think there's something we all relate to about...wanting to get to our most primal self.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The truth is the best brands, like the most interesting people, have a keen sense of self.

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