Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

If you can have faith in your real self, you'll suffer less. Be bold about who you really are.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

I practice self-love, give love, and surround myself with people who bring out the best in me.

Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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