Self Quotes - Page 26

• Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

  Subhash Kak

  Betrayal, Careers, Support

  Subhash Kak (1994). “The astronomical code of the Ṛgveda”

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• Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

  Ted Malloch

  Flower, Discipline, Virtue

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.

  DeBarra Mayo

  Perfect, Waiting, Answers

  DeBarra Mayo (1983). “Yoga”, Anderson World

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• Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.

  Fukuzawa Yukichi

  Law, Giving, Daggers

  Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1988). “Fukuzawa Yukichi on Japanese women: selected works”, Univ of Tokyo Pr

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• And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.

  Carrie Jacobs-Bond

  Friendship, Perfect Days, Soul

  Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond (1940). “The End-of-the-road”

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• American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Women, Two, Ill Health

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• Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Morality, Respecting Others, Behavior

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• Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.

  Rosa Campbell Praed

  Work, Talismans

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• Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

  Julia Alvarez

  Strong, Needs, Operations

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• The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.

  Morris Berman

  Spiritual, Real, Work

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• This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer, and is as much affected by outward causes.

  Humphry Davy

  Sex, People, Causes

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• What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?

  Humphry Davy

  Home, Outcomes, Way

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• The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

  Susanna Rowson

  Compassion, Mind, Wish

  Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Appreciation, Character, Honor

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• Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves till we hear something new, something we did not hear before - the still, small voice of Nature herself.

  Jean Hersey

  Flower, Garden, Voice

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Self Esteem, Doors, Waiting

  Marjorie Hillis (2012). “Live Alone And Like It”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

  Corinne Maier

  Work, Remember, Fulfillment

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.65, Vintage

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• Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

  Margery Wilson

  Lying, Charm, Forgetfulness

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• If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

  Margery Wilson

  Taken, Discipline, Leaving

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• The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

  Margery Wilson

  Mind, Inward, Looks

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• We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Shed

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• I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.

  Carol Bly

  Real, Hair, People

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• Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.

  Gabrielle Burton

  Confidence, Fashion, Cosmetics

  Gabrielle Burton (1972). “I'm Running Away from Home, But I'm Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women's Liberation”

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• the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.

  Natalie Kusz

  Fall, Dying, Bleeding

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• the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.

  Clara Fraser

  Diversity, World, Lines

  Clara Fraser (1998). “Revolution, She Wrote”, p.138, Red Letter Press

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