Woodrow Wilson Quotes, Determination Quotes, Self Quotes

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Self Quotes , Promise Quotes

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.

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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Self Quotes , Might Quotes

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

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At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.

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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Communication Quotes , Self Quotes

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Demand Quotes

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

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There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wall Quotes , Self Quotes

Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Maturity Quotes , Self Quotes

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes