Quotes about Self

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.