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Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know you have it.
View quotes by Ralph Ellison

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
View quotes by E F Schumacher

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself. You've got to learn to accept the fool in you as well as the part that's got it goin' on.
View quotes by Tyra Banks

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
View quotes by Learned Hand

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
View quotes by Thomas Carlyle

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
View quotes by Jay Leno

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
View quotes by Albert Pike

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
View quotes by Maxwell Maltz

Those who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything.
View quotes by Henry Blofeld

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...
View quotes by Thomas Szasz

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
View quotes by Arthur Ashe

Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious.
View quotes by Alec Baldwin

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
View quotes by Kurt Cobain

Self destructiveness is given a really bad rap. It can mean self-reflection, poetic sensibility, empathy, hedonism and libertarianism.
View quotes by Courtney Love

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned
View quotes by Jane Haddam

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man
View quotes by Mencius

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
View quotes by William J Clinton



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