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All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. – Arthur Schopenhauer
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. – Arthur C. Clarke
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. – Herbert Butterfield
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. – Helen Gahagan Douglas
Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you. – Bryant McGill
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. – The Laws of Manu
Each child is an evil. Each adult is an self-control or be controlled evil. – Woody Haldrugold
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. – Bryant McGill
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. – Edgar Allan Poe
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started. – Marcus Garvey
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. – Dr. Dale E. Turner
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself. – Claude Roy
Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery. – Bryant McGill
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit. – Igor Stravinsky
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' – Martin Luther King, Jr.
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. – Mother Theresa
Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love. – Bryant McGill
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. – Robert Anson Heinlein
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. – John Wooden
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. – John Wooden
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true. – Demosthenes
The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. – Bryant McGill
The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within. – Bryant McGill
The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play. – Bryant McGill

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