Best harder & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.”

Thinking Inspirational Self Hard Pain Dies Buddhism Harder Hopeless Self Knowledge Without Hope

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't take yourself too seriously. It just makes life all the harder. It'll all come out in the wash anyway, because God's glory eventually will eclipse everything that goes wrong on this earth. Lighten up and learn to laugh at yourself. None of us is infallible. We make mistakes in life, and more often than not, they're funny. Sometimes, being your own source of comedy is the most fun of all.”

Self Sometimes Earth Fun Mistake Laughing Comedy Source Glory Harder Making Mistakes Infallible Eclipse Laugh At Yourself Life Mistakes We Make Mistakes Learn To Laugh At Yourself

Author:Luci Swindoll

“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

Men Two Self Fighting Interest Rights Victory Harder Moved Mechanism Self Interest

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you cant see beyond it.”

Thinking Self Enough Stories Feelings Past Hard Work Healthy Harder Good Enough Traps Cant Work Harder Dose Loathing Not Good Enough Self Loathing

Author:Kim Cattrall

“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.”

Thinking Years Firsts Self Careers Six Singing Conscious Weight Harder Comment Self Conscious

Author:Kenny Rogers

“Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.”

Self Facts Faces Guy Hell Harder Self Respect Not Interested Chasing Rip

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.”

Wells Stills Ends Self Light Joy Hate Grows Sides Dark Love You Harder Remains Ancient Witness You Choose Arrogant Puzzles Dark Side Loathing Self Loathing Life Or Death Dark Life

Author:Glenn Beck

“Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.”

May Book Self House Honesty Easier Harder Publishing Publish Sellers Best Sellers

Author:Amanda Hocking

“[With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.”

Thinking Way Doe Self Able Harder Granted Restriction Fcc

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.”

People World Feels Self Seems Hurt Doubt Fate Happened Protect Harder Victim Blame Deny Trauma Recovery Assault Self-doubt Precaution Inspectors

Author:Anna C Salter

“Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.”

“These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these new technologies require self control. So much of the software seems to be about correcting imperfections - quantizing, Auto-tune - and, to me, those corrections can really drain the life out of a performance.”

Self Seems Technology Performances Harder Limitation These Days Tunes Imperfection Software Self Control Drains New Technology Corrections Correcting Auto Tune

Author:Michael Dumontier

“When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Self Natural Struggle Draws Harder Drawing Visuals Vocabulary Intuitive Just Do It

Author:Arthur Jones

“There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the level of their subjectivity. The idea of subjective commitment is at the core of ethics, something that divides the self from itself. I become an ethical self. I cannot meet that ideal, I cannot fulfill it, it divides me from myself and it makes me strive harder. This ideal subjective ethical drive is at the heart of an absolutely earnest, radical politics that insists that people will be able to engage with each other, and they're lifted from irony at that point.”

“To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards”

Should Firsts Stills Self Hard Teach Teacher Discipline Demand Harder Oneself Pupils Vigorous

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious.”

Way Feels Looks I Can Self Certain Enjoy Easier Scene Conscious Harder Expected Self Conscious

Author:Ivana Milicevic

“If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.”

Ifs Thinking Self Grows Harder Evolve

Author:Tony Hsieh

“For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.”

Made Self Success Left Goal My Own Rooms Self Esteem Harder Esteem

Author:Martin Lawrence

“The problem with an autobiography is that all these extra factors make it difficult. You don't want to hurt people's feelings. You don't know how much you can trust your memory. You don't want it to be self-serving. And you have all these issues about how to present yourself. All these factors make it harder to do than a novel.”

People Knows Want Self Feelings Problem Difficult Hurt Memories Novel Know How Issues Harder Factors Extras Serving Autobiography Our Memories Self Serving

Author:Richard Hell

“Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.”

Self Hard Problem Eye Stars Can Do Drug Normal Harder Sanity Public Eye

Author:Maureen McCormick

“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.”

Thinking Should Littles Self Comedy Self Esteem Lows Harder Esteem Low Self Esteem Overrated High Self Esteem

Author:Jay Leno

“The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.”

Self Inspiring Struggle Demand Harder Self Realization Realization Triumph Glorious Stay Strong Triumphant Life Struggle Never Give Up On Something My Struggle I Will Not Give Up Acumen

Author:Sivananda

“One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.”

Thinking Has Beens Self Reason Helping Sides Emotion Moral Self Help Negative Harder Reason Why Replaced Vocabulary Good And Bad Beneficial Negative Thinking Lexicon

Author:Julian Baggini

“You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Faces Evil Harder Manifestation Extras Hard Times Best Self Be Your Best True Evil

Book:The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold

Source: The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold

“but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!”

Ifs Want Self Use Force Doors Harder Locks Inner Self

Book:The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, it’s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn’t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse”

Thinking Self Sometimes Hurt Safe Kissing Harder Dirty Relax Preservation Couches Self Preservation Kissing Her

Book:White Cat

Source: White Cat

“There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.”

Thinking Kind Doe Made Different Self Sometimes Dream Night Father Heaven Sacrifice Late Harder Bravery Brave Admire Different Kinds Darling Drawers Pistols Thinking Of Others

Author:James M. Barrie

“A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.”

Self Acceptance Difficulty Harder Paid Denial Summit Risen Pay The Price Self-denial

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.”

Thinking Wells Self Desire Dies Difficult Virtue Achieve Humility Harder Philosophical

Author:T. S. Eliot

“It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?”

“The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.”

Ifs Trying Self Winning Loses Player Self Esteem Basketball Losing Tough Harder Asking Esteem Coaching Basketball Coaching Dissension

Author:Rick Pitino

“The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.”

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -- all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations.”

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