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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

She came straight on to the set from one film, and was going straight off to the next. And she was fantastic. So self-possessed and connected [on Keira Knightley]
View quotes by Matthew Macfadyen

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

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
View quotes by Sara Teasdale

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
View quotes by Joseph Addison

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
View quotes by Edmund Burke

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
View quotes by Carl Sandburg

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
View quotes by Casey Stengel

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
View quotes by B C Forbes

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed
View quotes by William Cowper

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
View quotes by Walter Lippmann

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
View quotes by James Anthony Froude

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



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