Self Quotes - Page 279

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.

Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.

If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?

You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantle your cause, to exploit what you lack and expose all your flaws. But when every layer of your being is gone, and it seems there's no point anymore to go on; just remember one thing, at the end of the day, when you have self-respect they can't take that away.

But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.