Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

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Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

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There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

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I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

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In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

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What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.

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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

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To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

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