Quotes 761 till 780 of 940.
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625) -
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
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There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude - confidence in self.
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
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Thus we feign the continu’d existence of the perceptions of our senses, to remove the interruption; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) -
To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
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