Self Possession Quotes
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.
The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.
A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.
Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.
Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.
