S Quotes
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“Self-Checkout Line The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.”
“Self-command is the main elegance.”
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.”
“Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.”
“Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.”
“Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.”
“Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.”
“Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.”
“Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.”
“Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.”
Source: Handbook for Preclears
“Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].”
“Self-confidence can be crippling.”
“Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.”
“Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.”
“Self-confidence goes a long way and is very attractive to others.”
“Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Self-confidence is a must for a fulfilled life. If you have a divine self-confidence, you know how fortunate you are. Study yourself, you have awareness and infinite power within you. choose to build an image in your marvelous mind of what you want to do. Happiness, health and prosperity will be your rewards.”
“Self-confidence is a terrible, terrible thing; it's also the most attractive thing.”
“Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.”
“Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“Self-confidence is confidence in the Atma; it is an unwavering love for the Divinity within you. That is very important. What will help you to develop that confidence? Be equalminded, be satisfied with what you have. Be happy.”
“Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.”
“Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.”
“Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.”
“Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.”
“Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two don’t (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you don’t have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.”
“Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.”
Source: Handbook for Preclears
“Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.”
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
Source: The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works
“Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.”
“Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.”
“Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.”
“Self-confidence means thinking all the time, "God is in me... God is doing everything . . . without God I cannot be . . . all this is God . . . I only want to think of God."”
“Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.”
Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams
“Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions,
Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them.
Thinking, 'I alone shall do it'
Is the self-confidence of action.”
“Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.”
Source: The Majesty of Calmness
“Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.”
“Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.”
“Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.”
“Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.”
“Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.”
“Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.”
“Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.”
“Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.”
“Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.”
Source: Enduring Love