Self-Leadership
545 quotes: 55 by Keith Craft, 490 from other voices.
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- The Boss is he who demands of himself more than he demands of all the rest of his people.
- The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.
- The censorious commonly take up magnifying glasses to look at other person's imperfections, and diminishing glasses to look at their own enormities.
- The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
- The characteristic of a philosopher is that he looks to himself for all help or harm.
- The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.
- The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
- The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most people’s frustrations and defeats.
- The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture.
- The fastest road to an unhappy life is living it in a way that makes other people happy but leaves you miserable.
- The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
- The first person we must examine is ourselves.
- The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
- The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
- The greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
- The greatest knowledge is self-knowledge.
- The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
- The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
- The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves, and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when we too passionately and eagerly defend it.
- The key to everything: give yourself permission to be who you really are.
- The lesson taught at this point by human experience is simply this, that the man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
- The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
- The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.
- The man who has not learned to say “No,” will be a weak if not a wretched man as long as he lives.
- The man who would be benevolent is like the archer. The archer adjusts himself and then shoots. If he misses, he does not murmur against those who surpass himself. He simply turns round and seeks the cause of his failure in himself.
- The middle gear of any man is self-discipline.
- The mind of man is often like a house of which he is the landlord; bad tenants are more easily admitted than removed.
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
- The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.
- The most important, difficult and rewarding thing to work on is yourself.
- The most important thing is knowing where you are competent and where you aren’t. The human mind tries to make you believe you are smarter than you are. Rub your nose in your mistakes.
- The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
- The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
- The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
- The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
- The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
- The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.
- The only person you can control is YOU. So stop getting mad at people for not being who you want them to be.
- The power men possess to annoy me I give them.