If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?
The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.
you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks.
I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.
I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
True 'we travel the world over and over to find the authentic-self, we forget that we carry it within. Simply Pause.
God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?
An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
