Quotes 381 till 400 of 773.
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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
Memoirs (1991) -
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
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Of course not, she agreed, You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
Warbreaker (2009) Blushweaver -
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
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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.
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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Our friends are chosen for us by some hidden law of sympathy, and not by our conscious wills.
Youth and life (1913) -
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
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Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
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Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
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