Quotes 761 till 780 of 862.
-
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
-
We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.
-
We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
-
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
-
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
-
What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
Source: Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 93. -
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
-
What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
-
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
-
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
-
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
-
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
-
What of Art?
- It is a malady.
Love?
- An Illusion.
Religion?
- The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
- Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
What are you?
- To define is to limit. -
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
-
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
Source: Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder -
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
-
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
-
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
-
When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
― Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.
All self-belief famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 39)
