Self Quotes
Shamanism is not a religion. It’s a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman’s path can become a way of life.
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful.
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.
Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.
We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.
Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.
I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.
I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.
It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.
When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He delivered me from the poverty-stricken self with his great love, he cherishes me.
No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.
I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense.
We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It’s not about making learning happen; it’s about letting it happen.
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.
I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.