Self Quotes - Page 28

• Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Profound, Source

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• The most important use of NVC may be in developing self-compassion.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Important

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• Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Men, Good Man

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

  Aristotle

  Government, Creation, Individual

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle

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• It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Happy Life, Sea

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• Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

  Aristotle

  Character, Men, Matter

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.188, Wordsworth Editions

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• Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.

  Emmylou Harris

  Country, Children, Patriotic

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Investing, Juan, Spending

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Reality, Discovery

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• The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Unhappy, Want

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• As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis that way, then there's no freedom. We're just trying clothes on in front of a mirror and admiring them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mirrors, Clothes

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• I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.

  Michael Greger

  Cancer, Exercise, Years

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• The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Teaching, Exercise, Men

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• The greatest quality that a person can possess is the quality of self-belief. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most certainly won't.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Believe, Quality

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• Good governance needs self-discipline. Only discipline within can ensure discipline without.

  Narendra Modi

  Discipline, India, Needs

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• The Ayodhya judgment will work as a catalyst to maintain peace and unity in the country. This judgment has given a respect to belief and self esteem of the people of India, and it should be linked to self esteem of the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Self Esteem, People

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• how to divide ourselves fairly between ourselves and the rest of the world is the hardest question we ever have to answer.

  Margaret Warde

  Answers, World, Hardest

  Margaret Warde (1906). “Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls”

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• Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Exercise, Sick

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• Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, War, Knowing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

  Christopher Lee

  Emotional, Thinking, People

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• High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.

  Meaghan Rath

  School, People, Fit

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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• The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

  Paul Strand

  Gratitude, Thinking, Men

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• I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Color, White

  George W. Bush's Remarks with Prime Minister Martin of Canada in a Press Availability, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 30, 2004.

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