Charles Dickens Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Wise Quotes , Self Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Self Quotes

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Education Quotes , Self Quotes

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Self Quotes , Sea Quotes

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Self Quotes , Criticism Quotes

Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Mother 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

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Valentine Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Self Quotes , Soul Quotes

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Art Quotes , Self Quotes

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Self Quotes , Focus Quotes

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Self Quotes , Joy Quotes

Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Alvarez Quotes , Self Quotes , Media Quotes

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Self Quotes , Despair Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Normal Quotes

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Self Quotes , People 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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Tasks Quotes

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Hands Quotes