Self-Leadership
545 quotes: 55 by Keith Craft, 490 from other voices.
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- The power of mastery is within ourselves, but we must develop it, cultivate it, use it.Orison Swett MardenSourced
- The practice of not blaming anyone else for your problems is the most underrated mental health hack.
- The problem with waiting is no one is coming. The only permission you need is your own.
- The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
- The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
- The real challenge is holding yourself to a higher standard and simultaneously not punishing yourself for the occasional mistake.
- The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
- The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
- The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
- The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.
- The single most empowering thing you can do is take responsibility for yourself, 100% of the time.
- The starting point of building your self-esteem is for you to have a clear sense of who you are and what you want.
- The things that we decide to run from are the truth. When you make excuses, you’re running from the truth.
- The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.
- The true Master is master of himself; anything other than this is not mastery but delusion.James AllenSourced
- The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
- The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.
- The wise man expects everything from himself; the fool looks to others.
- The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.
- The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.
- THERE are two guarantees of a wise rule of conduct: the thought before action, and self-command afterward.
- There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.
- There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.
- They have great powers, and they waste them pitifully, for they have not the greatest power,--the power to rule the use of their powers.
- Those who can command themselves, command others.
- Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
- Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Time isn't your master, you are.
- 'Tis no Sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
- To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils.
- To be angry is to avenge the faults of others upon ourselves.
- To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.
- To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
- To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
- To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
- To move the world we must move ourselves.