Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hunter

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

James Scott

Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.

James Russell Lowell

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

James Russell Lowell

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

James Q. Wilson

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

James Redfield

The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

James H. Douglas

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

James Harvey Robinson

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

James Harvey Robinson

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

James Harvey Robinson

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

James Fox

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

James Fenton

The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.

Laurence Sterne

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

Liberace

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

Libba Bray

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.

Friedrich Schiller

I am my own heaven and hell!

Friedrich Schiller

To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!

Friedrich Schiller

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

Friedrich Schiller

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

George Friedman

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

George Galloway

The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.

Jon Landau

The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.

Joko Beck

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Johnny Vegas

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.