Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
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I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.
Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
Benjamin Disraeli
We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
Martin Luther King Jr.
Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.
Rita Mae Brown
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
Aldous Huxley
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.
John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin Franklin
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain; but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Betty Friedan
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
Robert Byrne
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
Thucydides
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Bronte
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
Jean Anouilh
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
Thomas H. Huxley
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplier
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Fulton J. Sheen
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
Dylan Thomas
If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.
Harry S Truman
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
James Madison
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.
Helen Keller
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
Emma Goldman
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
Davy Crockett
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
Antoine Rivarol
We're happy for people to tell us things even if they just find something curious. In the first few days of an illness, people tend to self-medicate, and they may have something serious that requires more treatment.
Josh Young
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Beatrice Potter Webb
This might give teachers some things they might like. But fortunately, our members look beyond their own self-interest and see the damage this would inflict.
Charles Hasse
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
Henry David Thoreau
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The laws of Manu
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
Ralph Ellison
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Their assistance has been genuine, if motivated in large measure by self-preservation. You have to give Kadafi credit for recognizing the existential threat posed to his rule and revolution by [Osama] bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
Bruce Hoffman
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Editors finally began to understand that the audience was largely self-selecting, and that the readers the feature attracted were unlikely to be offended.
Garry Trudeau
There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. And when you lose that confidence, you've lost the only security you can have. ... Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course.
L. Ron Hubbard
One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
Maxwell Maltz
It's a self-restraint thing. People need to not use them constantly, and they'll be fine.
Stacey Doyon
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
Andre Maurois
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale E. Turner
This helps build their self-esteem mentally and socially.
Alison O'connor
A self-invested personal pension or stakeholder gives you complete freedom to select [the underlying investment fund or assets] in accordance with your ethics.
Tom Mcphail
It's part of a pattern at the Post where they're gradually been getting rid of all the people who write interesting copy on China or Hong Kong and toning down the paper. It's basically a process of self-censorship.
Jasper Becker
People are more self-consciously Islamic but it doesn't mean anyone is saying ... we should make Indonesia an Islamic state.
Greg Fealy
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet
It's a cleansing process. I never feel better than I do during Ramadan because I'm focused. It teaches me self-restraint and discipline.
Saleem Rasheed
Self Improvement is Masturbation.
Tyler Durden
It is not so much about telling time anymore. You have the time all around you, in your car, on your computer, at your office. It is about self-expression.
Albert Bensoussan
We wrote our names in Egyptian and did scrolls. We made self-portraits as queens or pharaohs.
Michael Lane
All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations.
Robert White
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.
George Bataille
If people want to guarantee their survival, then this is what they need. It's easy to wear, it's affordable, and it does what it says on the tin. I know I'll have one and my friends will have one. It's about self-preservation - that's the bottom line.
Richard Bailey
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
Paul A. Samuelson
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden
His standard line was, 'So what the ... do I know?' He knew about his own normal self, the ways he couldn't function.
Dennis Mcnally
He's as good as anyone -- kid or veteran -- making adjustments. He knows himself and knows the game, so he can self-correct and improve. David's going to play at a high level pretty soon.
Mike Cameron
I think it's pretty self-evident that land prices downtown have escalated so rapidly that people are looking for affordable alternatives. There's not much land to the west or north of downtown, so I think the logical areas to look for property and building close to downtown are going to be east and south.
Charles Heimsath
I like the fact that this record is not so self-serious.
Bryan Adams
In an ideal world, if any government program is going to be self-sufficient, the consumer needs to be able to understand it. But how many government programs are like that?
Melinda Monteen
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
Kanye West
These days you have to be more other conscious rather than self-conscious when overseas.
David Solomons
It builds their self-esteem, it builds their confidence. It helps them understand they have control over their lives.
Pamela Jones
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Carlos Castaneda
Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.
Alyce P. Cornyn selby
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
John Perry Barlow
I think people want to train and elevate their inner self.
Ryuta Kawashima
Rebuilding quickly is part of our self-identity, but we're getting more cynical about what we're capable of.
Christine Rosen
Ignorance is a necessary condition of human happiness, and it must be owned that in most cases we fulfill it well. We know almost nothing about ourselves; absolutely nothing about our neighbors. Ignorance constitutes our peace of mind; self- deception our felicity.
Anatole France
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe
Self-sabotage is like a game of mental tug-of-war. It is the conscious mind versus the subconscious mind where the subconscious mind always eventually wins.
Bo Bennett
I still maintain that music is the best way of getting the self-expression job done.
Nick Hornby
Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great.
Abe Fortas
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
Joyce Carol Oates
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.
Kathleen Norris
President Reagan had a contagious sense of optimism. He believed deeply America was capable of solving our problems through our democratic process of self-government, and that other nations could do the same.
Thad Cochran
At best, this appears to be a poorly constructed opinion poll of those that self-selected to complete a biased form to elicit a negative response.
Deborah Scott
Looking back, it was amazing. He was his ebullient self. He had been through a hard place, but he was free flowing.
James Nykolay
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
George Sand
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
Anatole Broyard
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
William Hale White
We share the benefits of success, ... We haven't got rooms and rooms of corporate people running around full of their own self importance. I value the developers as the key personnel in? this particular organization.
Ian Livingstone
I lived on a farm until I was 7 during the Great Depression, ... It didn't affect us, though, because our farm was self-sufficient. We had cows, hens, chicken, pigs and a donkey. The only thing we bought from the store was flour and sugar. ... My grandmother, Sarah Carter, smelled good, like apples, because she was always busy making apple cake or apple pie.
Barbara Frye
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
One of the most important criteria for the Air Force is to have it self-contained, and Midland already has everything in place, ... I'm confident the Air Force will pick the best location for its pilots' training program.
Mike Conaway
Selling 3,000 to 5,000 books on your own really makes the big publishers stand up and take notice. A lot of small self-publishers get picked up that way.
Rita Mills
We've been able to create a self-sustaining real estate model, with development and redevelopment as the engine giving us earnings growth.
Peter Lowy
Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
Kurt Cobain
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
It's really wonderful to be able to put your whole self into something. As a band, creating new material is really a group effort; there is a certain lack of control one has as an artist. Now, I am able to take my experiences from the band and from life to make an album that is completely me, inside and out.
Leigh Nash
We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.
Gideon Gono
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
What happened with Peyton is when she came back for this season, she realized that she could be good. It's one thing for your mom and dad and coach to tell you, but when you believe it, all of a sudden, you start to evolve. As she got more and more success, you could see her become more confident. Being a self-advocate, she would push herself.
Mike Feldman
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month reminds us all that when it comes to breast cancer, the difference between life and death for many women can be measured in a commitment to mammograms, self-exams, and regular doctor visits.
Olympia Snowe
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption.
Gregg Easterbrook
Self-publishing got a bad rap because there were too many people publishing things that weren't fit to be published, but in the last few years self publishers are producing more daring and more cutting edge work the big houses don't want to mess with.
Cathy Stucker
It is self-serving and potentially misleading to associate harmful effects with something other than the test drug.
William Hoffman
It's a fun process to watch because we know how the final chapter ends. It's fun to watch people go through that self-realization that they can do this.
Brian Collins
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
Bliss Carman
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.
Demosthenes
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker
Left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less self-confident, less united, more socially equal, less economically equal, more expressive, more risk-averse, more sexual, less literate, less polite, less reticent.
David Frum
Suppose we take aid, it couldn't reach any faster. We don't want it, there is no need. Why aren't you happy we are self-supporting?
V.k. Duggal
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
A. J. Liebling
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
Ann Oakley
Self-discipline implies some unpleasant things to me, including staying away from chocolate and keeping my hands out of women's pants.
Oleg Kiselev
If in fact the universe were fully explainable in a self-contained way, maybe it would be rational to simply to an atheist, ... If in fact the universe doesn't seem self-explainable, that gives a rational basis for belief that there is a God.
Commander Majwalter Bradley
My strength has been the self-belief that has helped me perform at this level. My teammates and family have always been behind me, no matter what happens.
Anil Kumble
He was a very good person and never carried a gun. He was a very good brother. How can it be self-defense if the other people weren't armed? How can it be?
Juan Gutierrez
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland
It doesn't help to wallow in self-pity. We're trying.
Cindy Salerno
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
Douglas William Jerrold
This is early intervention. We're trying to avoid children being classified for special ed, we're trying to avoid children being retained, and we're trying to bolster self-esteem.
Denise Mechan
While we are disappointed in Jason's lack of judgment and self-control, we will refrain from further comment out of respect to the judicial system.
Mark Shapiro
The courage of exploring myself was nothing compared to the courage of actually doing the EMT course, ... As a writer, the concept of self-revelation is not new. The problem was getting through the depression and anxiety and doing something unheard of for me: becoming an EMT. Writing about self-revelation is gravy.
Michael Stern
The bottom line is, they are many years away from food self-sufficiency. If they push the public distribution too far, they could easily be looking at another famine.
Peter Beck
Kurdish politicians have no present intentions to gain independence. But we need self-determination in order to decide our future in case troubles erupt in Iraq in the future.
Mullah Bakhtiyar
The moment a party loses trust in them, then it's their duty to self-inhibit.
Romeo Capulong
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos
I don't see him as a victim; I think he's going to be happier not having to baby-sit a lot of egos. The music industry is firmly entrenched in its habits, and it's a very parochial, self- preserving industry.
Wayne Rosso
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden
Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Margaret Fuller
My mom raised me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.
Kirsten Dunst
Those are the critical hours when kids can possibly get into trouble. We try and provide a safe haven for them with positive activities that help foster their self-esteem and character.
Sarah Taylor
All of our toll roads become financially self-sufficient.
Joanne Hurley
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Thomas Traherne
You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.
Christy Mathewson
My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
Flip Wilson
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
Alan Perlis
I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.
Islom Karimov
Richard wanted me to play him aged 11 and 15, but as soon as he saw how tall I'd grown - I'm six foot two - he had a rethink and cast another boy as his younger self.
Nicholas Hoult
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.
Derrick Jensen
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
One of the biggest things he learned was the ability to keep your self-confidence, even when somebody was saying you were wrong.
Diana Williams
The biggest peril the over-55s face is discouragement. Don't let this become a self-fulfilling prophecy - it's just an extra four weeks.
Richard Bayer
Our preliminary data showed that mothers were effective in increasing the mediating variables -- knowledge of how HIV is transmitted, self-efficacy to refuse sex and the intention to refuse sex -- than the other two interventions.
Barbara Dancy
We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.
Grace Speare
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
Phillips Brooks
The new organization will further strengthen self-regulation within the Canadian securities industry and enhance the already strong levels of investor protection and market integrity.
Bill Moriarty
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
They teach them patience, problem solving and self-control and positive reinforcement.
Jennifer Wise
His vision is impaired, and he will never be self-sufficient.
Matt Bingham
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Henry Van Dyke
I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.
Joanne Woodward
Continued self-exclusion from the euro will bring a crushing loss of investment and political influence and increased vulnerability to money market turmoil.
Graham Watson
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
Gail Sheehy
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Erich Fromm
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
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