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| Well begun is half done. (Aristotle) | [▲] | [▼] |
| This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom. (John Viney) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Rule your mind or it will rule you. (Horace) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. (Richard Nixon) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. (Abraham J. Heschel) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves. (Bonaro W. Overstreet) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. (Cardinal De Retz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own. (Eric Hoffer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. (Frederick Douglass) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. (Jane Haddam) | [▲] | [▼] |
| To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves-there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. (Joan Didion) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. (Joan Didion) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. (Michel de Montaigne) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. (Virginia Woolf) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. (e. e. cummings) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. (Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. (Michel de Montaigne) | [▲] | [▼] |
| How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) | [▲] | [▼] |