Confucius Quotes, Mean Quotes, Self Quotes

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

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Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Simple Quotes , Self Quotes

One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Self Quotes , Ego Quotes

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Lying Quotes , Self Quotes

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Bravery Quotes

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , New York Quotes , Self Quotes

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Self Quotes , Dumb Quotes

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

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Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

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Tags : A. E. van Vogt Quotes , Self Quotes , Stories Quotes

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Self Quotes , Looks Quotes

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Self Quotes , Issues Quotes

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

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Tags : Abraham Low Quotes , Self Quotes , Self Respect Quotes

Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Winning Quotes , Self Quotes

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Love Quotes , Self Quotes

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Self Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes