S Quotes
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“Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.”
“Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.”
“Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.”
“Self-Reliance is a prerequisite to the complete freedom to act.”
“Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.”
“Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.”
“Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.”
“Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”
“Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
“Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.”
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.”
Source: Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it”
Source: Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays
“Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.”
“Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.”
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
“Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.”
Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel
“Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as well as our faults with neutrality, we can start to appreciate ourselves as we would a dear friend and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect. To embrace the journey towards our full potential we need to become our own loving teacher and coach. Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings we develop true regard for ourselves and our life will become sacred.”
“Self-respect is the best of all.”
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance
“Self-respect is the root of discipline”
“Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.”
Source: The second sin
“Self-respect knows no considerations.”
“Self-respect leads to self-discipline.”
“Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.”
Source: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.”
Source: Authority and the Individual
“Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.”
“Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.”
“Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.”
“Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.”
“Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.”
“Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.”
Source: The Good Life
“Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.”
Source: But Will it Sell?
“Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.”
Source: That Long Silence
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
“Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you
When really they no different from all your rivals.”
“Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.”
“Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.”
“Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se.”
“Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God's grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the person of Jesus; I will be my own redeemer; I will enter heaven by my own strength, and glorify my own merits." The Lord is very wroth against self-righteousness. I do not know of anything against which His fury burneth more than against this, because this touches Him in a very tender point, it insults the glory and honor of His Son Jesus Christ.”
“Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.”
“Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.”
Source: Killosophy
“Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.”
“Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.”