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Welcome to these Self Interest Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Self Interest and Love.
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
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Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
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I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
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Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
Smiling away your troubles requires
a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When I Honor myself,
I am confident of my being,
and I am gentle with myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give yourself the gift of forgiving
everyone you are angry with -
for every action you resent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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