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Self Quotes
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs."
448
"Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible."
Self,
168
"You must be a light unto yourself."
102
"To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody."
85
"What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
66
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
61
"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
Self,
60
"When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it."
59
"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."
57
"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
56
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance."
56
"I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me."
56
"One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
55
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession."
54
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
54
"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."
Self,
53
"I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person..."
53
"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
52
"You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed."
52
"So let those people go on weeping and wailing whose self-indulgent minds have been weakened by long prosperity, let them collapse at the threat of the most trivial injuries; but let those who have spent all their years suffering disasters endure the worst afflictions with a brave and resolute staunchness. Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts."
52
"Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves."
52
"We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are."
51
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
50
"Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense."
50
"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
50
"If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding."
50
"A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it."
50
"They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity."
50
"Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did."
50
"Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them."
49
"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle."
49
"Be great. Get thy "Self". Know who you are. Beyond this body, and being. You are more than what you're seeing."
49
"She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave."
49
"We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with."
49
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