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Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.
Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.
Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.
When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.
If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.
Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.
The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart.
When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.
Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.
I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control
It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.
As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.
Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
The trick to liking who you are is not to hate too much the person it turned out you weren't.
If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.
A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.
You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.
When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.
No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her sex.
Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.
Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.