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My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills
Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.
The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.
Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control.
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.
Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.
I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.
It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.
The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.
What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self.
I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.
Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.
If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.
Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...
If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.
A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
Start taking your SELF to the next level so you can take your SUCCESS to the next level. It only happens in that order.
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.
Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.
I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you'll be your best self.
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process
Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
Self Pity is the most miserable party to go to, because, in case you haven't noticed, you're the only one who is there.
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.
I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.
We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.