No one can motivate you, until you motivate yourself, Self- motivation is the foundational key to all success.
Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
When value of your words gets lower its time to stay quite and improve your self
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
If you got a dream, you are good to go. The only extra luggage you will need is self-belief and perseverance.
It is natural to celebrate the winning moments. However, we need to be equally conscious that we protest or resist the instances of cheating either by others or by self.
The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.
No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.
Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.