Self Quotes - Page 11

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.

I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.

Flannery O'Connor

There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.

Mary Pettibone Poole

For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost beyond our capacity at times but something to be carried high.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Jacqueline Bisset

As is our confidence so is our capacity.

William Hazlitt

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me peasantlike and stubborn and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Bertrand Russell

Tis the ignorant who boast.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth then humility must be its eternal hangover.

Helen Van Slyke

Conquer but never triumph.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.

Frederick W. Robertson

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

William J. H. Boetcker

Humility is attentive patience.

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else.

Believe that you can whip the enemy and you have won half the battle.

General J. E. B. Stuart

Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.

Ethel Percy Andrus

The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Susan B. Anthony

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.

Lillian Hellman

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

Johann von Goethe

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?

Sherwood Anderson

Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."

Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fuller

Soften my hard self-opinionatedness which time has hardened so exceedingly!

Gertrude the Great

Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Humility is like underwear essential but indecent if it shows.

The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.

I'm glad I never feel important it does complicate life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

More people are ruined by victory I imagine than by defeat.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.

John P. Loughrane

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Bernie S. Siegel

Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

Emmanuel

Ultimately love is self approval.

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

If I am not for myself who is for me? And if I am only for myself what am I? And if not now when?

Hillel

Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...

Kara DiGiovanna

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Ram Dass

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

Louisa May Alcott

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

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