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 EllisonArt is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire
self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
View quotes by Cyril ConnollyThe 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 DahlbergCompassion 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 ToynbeeThe 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 SchumacherA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
View quotes by AristotlePerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
View quotes by Robert Louis StevensonThese worthy schoolteachers were not overburdened with diplomas, but as far as devotion and morality were concerned, they were second to none; they wore plum-colored silk blouses that caressed my cheeks when they pressed me to their bosoms.
View quotes by Simone De BeauvoirTrue strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
View quotes by Henry MillerI cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
View quotes by Queen Elizabeth II'Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.'
View quotes by Billy CorganPatriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy
View quotes by William Ralph IngeI find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy
View quotes by MontaigneThe secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted
View quotes by Hannah MoreWhile those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.
View quotes by AristotleSelf-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 BanksA self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
View quotes by Learned HandNothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
View quotes by Thomas CarlyleI 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 LenoThe sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
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