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An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.
Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.
It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.
It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.
There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that.
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.
If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I can live for 3,000,000,000.
Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.
Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.
Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.
Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.
Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.
Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.
I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.
Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.
The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.
You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.
My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.