Quotes about self
selfish men medicine
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine - the special pleading of selfish interests. Henry Hazlitt
self skills discipline
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're wrong. But self-discipline is different. It's the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret. Henepola Gunaratana
self-esteem esteem ifs
If I am not I, who will be? Henry David Thoreau
self looks backwards
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
self world realizing
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
selfish thinking want
I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members. Mallory Ortberg
selfish exercise earth
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. Malcolm Muggeridge
self people moral
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually Malcolm X
self defense violence
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
self welfare should
Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking. Mahatma Gandhi
self evil hatred
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.
self belief certain
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
self suffering way
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
self demand precedence
Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
self government evil
It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.
selfish sake earning
Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.
self civilization patient
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.
self would-be obedience
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
self done violence
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
self-assessment
It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.
self religion deception
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
self evident ifs
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.
self examination groups
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
self interest suppression
Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
self civilization village
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
self violence defence
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
self acting force
At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting.
self government purification
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
selfish men purpose
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
self satisfaction needs
For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.
self denial alive
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
self discipline leader
Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception. John C. Maxwell
self giving influence
..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.