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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them
I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.
I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy
Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.
I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.
There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required.
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.
It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.
The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.
I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed."
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before.
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.
Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?