Quotes 421 till 440 of 697.
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
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Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
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