(22 quotes found)
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
“Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”
Napoleon Hill
“One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.”
Blaise Pascal
“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.”
Bryant H. McGill
“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
Aldous Huxley
“Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength”
Lao Tzu
“There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.”
Bhagavad Gita
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
