George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Self Quotes, May Quotes

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Book Quotes , Self Quotes

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Self Quotes

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Self Quotes

With self-discipline, all things are possible

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Self Quotes , Discipline Quotes

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aimee Semple McPherson Quotes , Self Quotes , Tasks Quotes

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Self Quotes , Expression Quotes

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Stress Quotes , Self Quotes

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Self Quotes

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Self Quotes , Purpose Quotes

Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Self Quotes

Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Self Quotes , Age Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wall Quotes , Self Quotes

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Dream Quotes , Self Quotes

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Home Quotes , Self Quotes

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Self Quotes , Noise Quotes

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Self Quotes