“ Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. ”
- William Hale White- Copy
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“ One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Self-awareness is a key to self-acceptance, which drives self-motivation and self-fulfillment. ”
- Stedman Graham- Copy
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“ Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ”
- Abraham J. Heschel- Copy
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“ Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves. ”
- W.E.B. Du Bois- Copy
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“ Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ”
- Clint Eastwood- Copy
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“ Self-observation is the groundwork for self-knowledge, and it is self-knowledge that effects change. ”
- Elizabeth O’Connor- Copy
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“ The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful — because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. ”
- Blum Ralph- Copy
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“ Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. ”
- Millicent Fenwick- Copy
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“ Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. ”
- Sir Richard Francis Burton- Copy
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“ In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ When people contribute to your sense of self-worth and self-esteem, they give you more than money can buy. ”
- Miley Phipps- Copy
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“ For a justice of this ultimate tribunal, the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is usually great. ”
- Abe Fortas- Copy
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“ Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
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“ The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search. ”
- Nathaniel Branden- Copy
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