Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
You don't lead people by what you say to them; you lead them by what they see you do. True leaders are self-leaders.
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.
I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.
It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.
No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.
