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\"Self-words-quotes<\/a>
Self-words-quotes and thoughts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Self-words quotes and thoughts, aphorisms and ideas, by famous writers and authors, from Self-Knowledge to Selfishness. Here the page from Self-Acceptance to Self-Interest.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
\nMichel de Montaigne
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-KNOWLEDGE<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.<\/span>
\nSimone de Beauvoir<\/span><\/p>\n

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility<\/span>
\nMother Teresa<\/span><\/p>\n

All knowledge ultimately means Self-knowledge.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.<\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

Know one, know all.<\/span>
\nKatha Upanishad (Ancient Hindu scripture)<\/span><\/p>\n

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)<\/span><\/p>\n

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.<\/span>
\nThales of Miletus (640-546 BC, Founder of Greek philosophy, sciences)<\/span><\/p>\n

Know thyself.<\/span>
\nSocrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)<\/span><\/p>\n

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.<\/span>
\nCynthia Ozick (1928-, American novelist, short-story writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher)<\/span><\/p>\n

God warms his hands at man’s heart when he prays.<\/span>
\nJohn Masefield (1878-1967, British poet and novelist)<\/span><\/p>\n

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.<\/span>
\nBeryl Markham<\/span><\/p>\n

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.<\/span>
\nBeryl Markham<\/span><\/p>\n

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.<\/span>
\nThomas Mann (1875-1955, German author, critic)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.<\/span>
\nSidney Madwed<\/span><\/p>\n

Turn your doubts to question; turn your question to prayers; turn your prayers to God.<\/span>
\nMark R. Litteton<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.<\/span>
\nJoshua Loth Liebman<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not our disadvantages or short-comings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.<\/span>
\nGiacomo Leopardi (1798-1837, Italian poet, scholar)<\/span><\/p>\n

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.<\/span>
\nJohann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801, Swiss theologian, mystic)<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.<\/span>
\nLao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)<\/span><\/p>\n

Know thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.<\/span>
\nLao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)<\/span><\/p>\n

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.<\/span>
\nLao-Tzu (BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism)<\/span><\/p>\n

He knows the universe and does not know himself.<\/span>
\nJean De La Fontaine (1621-1695, French poet)<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people today don’t want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.<\/span>
\nLouis Kronenberger<\/span><\/p>\n

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.<\/span>
\nThomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.<\/span>
\nFranz Kafka (1883-1924, German novelist, short-story writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Self-words<\/a>
Self-words pyramid map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.<\/span>
\nTom Hopkins (1944-, American sales trainer, speaker, author)<\/span><\/p>\n

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.<\/span>
\nGeorge Gurdjieff (1873-1949, Russian adept, teacher, writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.<\/span>
\nGeorge Gurdjieff (1873-1949, Russian adept, teacher, writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.<\/span>
\nCharlotte P. Gillman (1860-1935, American feminist and writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-LEARNING<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another’s description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self.<\/span>
\nTruth Devour<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.<\/span>
\nMustafa Saifuddin<\/span><\/p>\n

No teacher educated Einstein, no teacher trained Ramanujam, self-learning is their secret of success.<\/span>
\nDr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar<\/span><\/p>\n

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

Great books make great being.<\/span>
\nLailah Gifty Akita<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-LOVE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are more people without self-love than there are without envy.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that’s something anyone can have!<\/span>
\nKathy Ireland (1963-, American model)<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.<\/span>
\nHenrik Ibsen (1828-1906, Norwegian dramatist)<\/span><\/p>\n

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.<\/span>
\nLouise L. Hay (American metaphysical teacher, lecturer, author)<\/span><\/p>\n

When everyone takes care of himself, care is taken of all.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb (Sayings of British origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-MASTERY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself.<\/span>
\nPietro Aretino (1492-1556, Italian writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. You are your own master. You are the master and the way.<\/span>
\nBuddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)<\/span><\/p>\n

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.<\/span>
\nMatthew Arnold (1822-1888, British poet, critic)<\/span><\/p>\n

You are your own master and your own vacation resort; control yourself.<\/span>
\nBuddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-MOTIVATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.<\/span>
\nHarriet Beecher Stowe<\/span><\/p>\n

True happiness involves the full use of one\u2019s power and talents.<\/span>
\nJohn W. Gardner<\/span><\/p>\n

One finds limits by pushing them.<\/span>
\nHerbert A. Simon<\/span><\/p>\n

Slow, steady progress is better than daily excuses.<\/span>
\nRobin Sharma<\/span><\/p>\n

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.<\/span>
\nMartin Luther King<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-OBSERVATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Observe all men, thyself most.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)<\/span><\/p>\n

You may go where you want, but you cannot escape yourself.<\/span>
\nNorwegian Proverb (Sayings of Norwegian origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-PITY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.<\/span>
\nMillicent Fenwick<\/span><\/p>\n

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you’ve got imagination, you don’t need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don’t face facts — what can stop you? If I don’t make it today, I’ll come in tomorrow<\/span>
\nRuth Gordon<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t tell me that you’re pitiful because you’re homeless. You just need some help; ain’t nothing pitiful about that.<\/span>
\n(Sweet) Alice Harris<\/span><\/p>\n

The cure for grief is motion.<\/span>
\nElbert Hubbard (1859-1915, American author, publisher)<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.<\/span>
\nAndre Maurois (1885-1967, French writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-PRESERVATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb (Sayings of British origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t throw away your old shoes before you have new shoes.<\/span>
\nGerman Proverb (Sayings of German origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not spit into the well that you might need to drink out of.<\/span>
\nRussian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Self-mastery<\/a>
Self-mastery education<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SELF-REALIZATION<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn’t going anywhere.<\/span>
\nJulia Phillips<\/span><\/p>\n

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.<\/span>
\nEarl Nightingale<\/span><\/p>\n

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.<\/span>
\nThomas Paine<\/span><\/p>\n

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.<\/span>
\nOprah Winfrey<\/span><\/p>\n

If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.<\/span>
\nNorman Vincent Peale<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-RELIANCE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.<\/span>
\nAeschylus (525-456 BC, Greek dramatist)<\/span><\/p>\n

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.<\/span>
\nJames Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, “As A Man Thinketh”)<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.<\/span>
\nWally Amos (American businessman, founder of Famous Amos Cookies)<\/span><\/p>\n

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.<\/span>
\nSt. Thomas Aquinas<\/span><\/p>\n

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no “top.”<\/span>
\nNancy Barcus<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.<\/span>
\nAntoinette Brown Blackwell<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-RESPECT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.<\/span>
\nEdwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880, American author, clergyman)<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.<\/span>
\nJoe Clark<\/span><\/p>\n

Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success \u2013 for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.<\/span>
\nB.C. Forbes<\/span><\/p>\n

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)<\/span><\/p>\n

He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.<\/span>
\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.<\/span>
\nPeter McArthur<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-RESPONSABILITY<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.<\/span>
\nBuddha<\/span><\/p>\n

No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true.<\/span>
\nMoffat Machingura<\/span><\/p>\n

Stand in your own two shoes.<\/span>
\nT. Scott McLeod<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.<\/span>
\nVishwas Chavan<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.<\/span>
\nVishwas Chavan<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn to love your self from the inside and you would not need others to love you from the outside.<\/span>
\nEfrat Cybulkiewicz<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-SABOTAGE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.<\/span>
\nAesop (620-560 BC, Greek fabulist)<\/span><\/p>\n

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.<\/span>
\nJohn Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)<\/span><\/p>\n

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.<\/span>
\nEric Hoffer (1902-1983, American author, philosopher)<\/span><\/p>\n

No man continues to do unfavorable things for long except by his own fault.<\/span>
\nMichel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

A person’s worst enemy can’t wish on him what he can think up himself.<\/span>
\nYiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

Believing in yourself is an endless destination. Believing you have failed is the end of the journey.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.<\/span>
\nPaul Valery (1871-1945, French poet, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Personal<\/a>
Personal development advices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SELF-SACRIFICE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.<\/span>
\nJames Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, “As A Man Thinketh”)<\/span><\/p>\n

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.<\/span>
\nJohn Burroughs (1837-1921, American naturalist, author)<\/span><\/p>\n

His answer to every problem, every setback, was “I will work harder!” – which he had adopted as his personal motto. <\/span>
\nGeroge Orwell Boxer in Animal Farm<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-sacrifice is what the stupidest government or religion is always asking you!<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Napoleon ended his speech with a reminder of Boxer’s two favourite maxims, “I will work harder” and “Comrade Napoleon is always right” – maxims, he said, which every animal would do well to adopt as his own. <\/span>
\nAnimal Farm by George Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It’s a spiritual dissipation.<\/span>
\nMargaret Deland<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.<\/span>
\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)<\/span><\/p>\n

The men and women who have the right ideals… are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-SUFFICIENCY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.<\/span>
\nJohn Cage (1912-1992, American composer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.<\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.<\/span>
\nJohn Donne (1572-1632, British metaphysical poet)<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.<\/span>
\nShirley MacLaine (1934-, American actress)<\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.<\/span>
\nMichel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

At the center of climb is “I”<\/span>
\nAmerican Proverb (Sayings of American origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me listen to myself and not to them.<\/span>
\nGertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-TALK<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.<\/span>
\nJames Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, “As A Man Thinketh”)<\/span><\/p>\n

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.<\/span>
\nRalph Charell (American author)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.<\/span>
\nDeepak Chopra (1946-, East-Indian-American doctor, author, lecturer)<\/span><\/p>\n

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.<\/span>
\nConfucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)<\/span><\/p>\n

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.<\/span>
\nCharles Fillmore (American co-founder of Unity School of Christianity)<\/span><\/p>\n

One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.<\/span>
\nJames Hagerty<\/span><\/p>\n

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.<\/span>
\nDag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of the UN)<\/span><\/p>\n

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.<\/span>
\nNapoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, “Think And Grow Rich”)<\/span><\/p>\n

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.<\/span>
\nFranklin P. Jones<\/span><\/p>\n

Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act.<\/span>
\nJohn Lembo<\/span><\/p>\n

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-TRUST<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Self-trust is the first secret to success.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you conduct yourself properly, then fear no one.<\/span>
\nIraqi Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. Votes: 5<\/span>
\nAmos Bronson Alcott<\/span><\/p>\n

I trust no one, not even myself.<\/span>
\nJoseph Stalin<\/span><\/p>\n

Self trust is the essence of heroism<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-trust is the first secret of success.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.<\/span>
\nW. C. Fields<\/span><\/p>\n

Believe in yourself. Trust the process. Change forever.<\/span>
\nBob Harper<\/span><\/p>\n

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself. <\/span>
\nWalter Raleigh<\/span><\/p>\n

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.<\/span>
\nHowell Raines<\/span><\/p>\n

SELF-UNDERSTANDING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth. Apocrypha Every man is the architect of his fortune.<\/span>
\nAppius Claudius (340 BC-273 BC, Roman statesman, general)<\/span><\/p>\n

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.<\/span>
\nStephen R. Covey (1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People”)<\/span><\/p>\n

An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.<\/span>
\nThomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)<\/span><\/p>\n

You have not only the power to think — but what is a thousand times more important still — you have the power to control your thoughts and direct them to do your bidding!<\/span>
\nNapoleon Hill (1883-1970, American speaker, author, “Think And Grow Rich”)<\/span><\/p>\n

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.<\/span>
\nThomas a Kempis (1379-1471, German monk, mystic, religious writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

How could I have been anyone other than me?<\/span>
\nDave Matthews<\/span><\/p>\n

I think for anyone who’s gone through a crisis, there comes a turning point, an epiphany, that marks the beginning of the end.<\/span>
\nDeborah Norville<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me urge that we keep clear of two besetting sins — hardness of heart and softness of head.<\/span>
\nTheodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Motivational<\/a>
Motivational words by English-culture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SELF-WORTH<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.<\/span>
\nJim Courier (1970-, American tennis player)<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-worth comes from one thing — thinking that you are worthy.<\/span>
\nWayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer)<\/span><\/p>\n

One must be truthful with oneself about one’s own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.<\/span>
\nAlain French<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.<\/span>
\nSpark Matsunaga<\/span><\/p>\n

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb (Sayings of British origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

No man is free who cannot command himself. Above all things, love yourself.<\/span>
\nPythagoras (BC 582-507, Greek philosopher, mathematician)<\/span><\/p>\n

If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.<\/span>
\nHyrum Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

People that trust wholly to other’s charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.<\/span>
\nSir William Temple (1628-1699, British diplomat, essayist)<\/span><\/p>\n

A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.<\/span>
\nBooker T. Washington (1856-1915, American black leader and educator)<\/span><\/p>\n

SELFISHNESS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.<\/span>
\nBhagavad Gita (c. BC 400-, Sanskrit poem incorporated into the Mahabharata)<\/span><\/p>\n

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, they have no reserves, and they feed on the true and solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.<\/span>
\nVan Wyck Brooks<\/span><\/p>\n

He who never thinks of anything as mine does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.<\/span>
\nBuddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)<\/span><\/p>\n

He who never thinks of anything as mine does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.<\/span>
\nBuddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)<\/span><\/p>\n

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.<\/span>
\nJulio Cortazar (1914-1984, Belgian writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.<\/span>
\nNathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864, American novelist, short story writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.<\/span>
\nDoug Horton<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes we don’t give generously because we don’t see the generous Giver to whom it all belongs anyway!<\/span>
\nKent R. Hunter<\/span><\/p>\n

Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French classical writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.<\/span>
\nMalcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990, British broadcaster)<\/span><\/p>\n

How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,<\/span>
\nCharles Lamb (1775-1834, British essayist, critic)<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.<\/span>
\nOscar Levant (1906-1972, American pianist, actor)<\/span><\/p>\n

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.<\/span>
\nImelda Marcos (1929-, Philippines First Lady)<\/span><\/p>\n

Many look with one eye at what they give, but with seven at what they receive.<\/span>
\nGerman Proverb (Sayings of German origin)<\/span><\/p>\n

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.<\/span>
\nMme. Roland<\/span><\/p>\n

If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.<\/span>
\nArthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)<\/span><\/p>\n

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.<\/span>
\nDavid Seabury (American doctor, author)<\/span><\/p>\n

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.<\/span>
\nTertullian (160-240, Roman Christian author and polemicist)<\/span><\/p>\n

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.<\/span>
\nWilliam M. Thackeray (1811-1863, Indian-born British novelist)<\/span><\/p>\n

Let everyone see that you are unselfish and considerate in all you do.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)<\/span><\/p>\n

He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

You cannot be your brother’s keeper if you are caged by selfishness.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.<\/span>
\nKatha Upanishad (Ancient Hindu scripture)<\/span><\/p>\n

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Whichcote (1609-1683, British philosopher, theologian)<\/span><\/p>\n

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.<\/span>
\nIsrael Zangwill (1864-1926, British writer)<\/span><\/p>\n

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