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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

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
View quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
View quotes by Louisa May Alcott

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
View quotes by Lao Tzu

They [governing bodies] have to do something, otherwise more and more referees will be forced out of the game. [after the retirement of Anders Frisk]
View quotes by Urs Meier

History will not be kind to the chicanery that passes for governing in the Bush II administration.
View quotes by Bob Herbert

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe
View quotes by Bill Frist

We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party
View quotes by Andrew Lansley

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



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