quotes about self

by 3loomi Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:06 am

Confidence Quotations

Henry Ford
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
EpictetusWhoever does not regard what he has as most amply wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Robert Frost
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Brian G. Jett
You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don't say about themselves.

Zig Ziglar
You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Michael Jordan
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Rosalynn Carter
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Joe Paterno
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

William Dean Howells
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Chris Evert
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

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Control Quotes

Ashleigh Brilliant: Control Quotes
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

Jack Welsh: Control Quotes
Control your destiny or somebody else will.

Chuang Tzu: Control Quotes
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Staycentered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

James Q. Wilson: Control Quotes
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

Nathaniel Emmons: Control Quotes
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Elizabeth Kenny: Control Quotes
He who angers you conquers you.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche: Control Quotes
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Tao Te Ching: Control Quotes
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

John Milton: Control Quotes
He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.

William Ernest Henley: Control Quotes
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

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by 3loomi Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:09 am

Quotations about Self-Discovery

Peopleoften say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But theself is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~ThomasSzasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wildernessof your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. Whatyou'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long asthose of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ~Richard Grant

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to lovethe questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that arewritten in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, whichcannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. Andthe point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps youwill find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along somedistant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

All men should strive
to learn before they die
what they are running from, and to, and why.
~James Thurber

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne

If you don't get lost, there's a chance you may never be found. ~Author Unknown

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to frontonly the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what ithad to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had notlived. ~Henry David Thoreau, 1854

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~George Moore

It is good to feel lost... because it proves you have a navigationalsense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being foundexists. And maybe your current location isn't that place but,Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just broughtyou closer to it. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion oracquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~Gelett Burgess

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. ~Elizabeth Bibesco, Haven, 195

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and assoon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates himand knowledge cloys. ~Amiel, Journal, 1884

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~Wallace Stevens

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is moredistant than any star. ~G.K. Chesterton, "The Logic of Elfland," Orthodoxy, 1908

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquiredeeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth readingare precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~Author Unknown

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existencethat we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us,as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ~Carol Shields

To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ~Alice Walker

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A manmay show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ~William Butler Yeats

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. ~Phyllis Battelle

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. ~Timothy Leary

I've left Bethlehem
and I feel free...
I've left the girl I was supposed to be
and some day I'll be born.
~Paula Cole

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ~Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many whohad rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their ownhearts in their closet. ~Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ~Author Unknown

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ~Pearl Bailey

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problemis that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. ~MarkTwain

He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wise.
~Lao-tzu, Tao te Ching

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ~James A. Froude

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ~Alan Watts

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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. ~Zen Proverb

We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. ~George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity," Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1975

To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness. ~Fyodor Dostoevski

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to gothrough. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state andremain in it. This is a kind of death. ~Anaïs Nin

There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, andevery decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from the Underground," 1864

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, andmake but an interior survey of your good selves. ~William Shakespeare,"Coriolanus"

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems tohave been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in yourmirror. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge wavesof the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass ofthe ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass bythemselves without wondering. ~St. Augustine

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you didbefore. You see more in you than there was before. ~Clifton Fadiman

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged tofind the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~Nelson Mandela

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ~Clifton Fadiman

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A topoint B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A veryfast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, areoften given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many peoplefrom point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point Bthat so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They oftenwish that people would just once and for all work out where the hellthey wanted to be. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. ~William Shakespeare

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. ~Author Unknown

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ~André Maurois

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Goaway, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. ~Robert M. Pirsig

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~Jean de La Fontaine

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. ~Ben Stein

Driving down the wrong road and knowing it,
The fork years behind, how many have thought
To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car
Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many
Are still mazed among dock and thistle,
Seeking the road they should have taken?
~Damon Knight, The Man in the Tree, 1984

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. ~George Herbert

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is asthough you had robbed the unconscious of something. ~Carl G. Jung

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

"Know thyself?" If I knew myself, I'd run away. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. ~Hugh Prather

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart. ~George Michael, "Kissing A Fool"

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what theworld tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. ~Littlefoot's mother, Land Before Time

You're always in either first or fifth, but you know there's a lot of great gears in between. ~Tony to Angela on Who's The Boss

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of his life. ~James A. Michener

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability tosurprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you'veforgotten about. ~Alan Ball, American Beauty, 1999

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines oftreasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. ~Friedrich WilhelmNietzsche

If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but ifyou haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains. ~Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerman played by Kevin Spacey

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~Confucius

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrongreason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one isjudging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons,and of oneself. ~André Gide

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinkingbeyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. ~Johnnetta Cole

There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line.
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine.
~Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine"

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. ~Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ~George Bernard Shaw

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ~Josephine Hart

God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to theBeyond within. ~Macrina Wieherkehr

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surelyrevealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ~Russell Lynes

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from! ~John Eyberg

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal oftheir Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their wholeSeries of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind ofSelf-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, andincline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day wouldrectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all thoseindifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, mustcertainly be accounted for. ~Joseph Addison, 1712

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipators. ~Logan Pearsall Smith

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't eventhink what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ~BarbaraKingsolver, Animal Dreams

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet. ~Neil Simon

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then yourealize how obvious they've been all along. ~Madeleine L'Engle

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances,libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times- and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones. ~G.C.Lichtenberg

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths,which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up tothem, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon theroof, and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your ownpotential, my young friend. ~Michael Piller and Michael Wagner, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Evolution," Dr. Paul Stubbs to Wesley Crusher, original airdate 25 September 1989, stardate 43,125.8

"Know thyself" - a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A personobserving himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillarwho tried to "know himself" would never become a butterfly. ~AndréGide, Nouvelles Nourritures

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. ~Ralph Parlette

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. ~Arthur Christopher Benson

When your heart speaks, take good notes. ~Judith Campbell

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself todigging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out afew minute particles of gold ore. ~Dorothy Bryant

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what hepotentially is. The most important product of his effort is his ownpersonality. ~Erich Fromm

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. ~Robert Neelly Bellah, Habits of the Heart, 1985

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ~Nicolas Chamfort

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Thinkabout these once in a while and watch your answers change. ~RichardBach

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have tobe taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. ~George Eliot

Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as... from a lack of bread. ~Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940

The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. ~Samuel H. Hammond

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize andcelebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But thereare other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equallyvital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. ~Oliver Sacks

There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~Elizabeth A. Behnke

God hides things by putting them all around us. ~Author Unknown

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new godswaiting there, with divine patience - and laughter. ~Susan M. Watkins

Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. ~Bob Moawad

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