Self-Leadership
545 quotes: 55 by Keith Craft, 490 from other voices.
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- Don’t wait for change. You change.
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Either you run the day or the day runs you.
- Eliminate the need to be liked. Replace it with the intention to be of service, whether to others, something you believe in, or your highest self.
- Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.
- Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us.
- Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. There does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him. Man is made great or little by his own will.
- Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
- Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Farmers channel the water; fletchers straighten the arrow; carpenters work the timber; the wise tame themselves.
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
- First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others.
- For one who has conquered his mind, a mind is best of friends, but for one who has failed to do so, a mind is the greatest enemy.
- Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
- Forgive thyself little, and others much.
- Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
- Generosity isn’t saying yes to every request. It’s helping when you can make a unique contribution. Generosity isn’t sacrificing yourself for others. It’s helping when it won’t exhaust you – and when it energizes you.
- Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is in another's hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
- Gratitude is as important for feeding your soul as eating is important for feeding your body.
- Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
- Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.
- He has achieved a high measure of self-mastery who controls the invisible conduit extending from his ear to his tongue.
- He is great enough that is his own master.
- He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
- He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful warfare against his own appetites and passions, and has them under wise and full control.
- He that hath gained an entire conquest over himself will find no mighty difficulties to subdue all other opposition.
- He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.
- He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.
- He who is firm in will moulds the world to himself.
- He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.
- He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.
- He who overcomes others is strong, but he who overcomes himself is mightier still.
- He who reforms himself, has done more toward reforming the public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
- He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.
- He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
- He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get there; the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.
- He who subdues his temper vanquishes his greatest enemy.