Self Quotes - Page 9

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Ouida

What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling but deep down the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Anonymous

Without discipline there's no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

George Bernard Shaw

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Margery Allingham

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.

Helen Gurley Brown

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

Adelaide Proctor

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.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.

Louisa May Alcott

Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.

I listen and give input only if somebody asks.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

Plautus

Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.

Margaret Oliphant

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Louis XIV

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them and don't ask about them.

Teresa of Avila.

I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.

Caroline Begelow LeRow

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

Bible

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

If you can't write your message in a sentence you can't say it in an hour.

Sweet words are like honey a little may refresh but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.

He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty.

Lao Tzu

Self-command is the main elegance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

William Jennings Bryan

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

In forty hours I shall be in battle with little information and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that with God's help I shall make them and make them right.

General George S. Patton

Be always sure you're right then go ahead.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

Madonna

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.

Marlene Dietrich

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

To be confident is to act in faith.

Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

When the fight begins within himself a man's worth something.

Robert Browning

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Gertrude Atherton

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.

You must have discipline to have fun.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Andrew Carnegie

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

Anthony Trollope

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

Nathaniel Branden

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast a man consumed with earnestness of purpose with confidence in his powers with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.

Alfred

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

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