Self-Leadership
545 quotes: 55 by Keith Craft, 490 from other voices.
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- If you don’t have your own goals, you’ll end up working towards someone else’s.
- If you don’t know yourself, you can’t control your own emotions.
- If you don't program yourself, life will program you!
- If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- If you have no power over yourself, then you’re at the whim of everything else in this world.
- If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
- If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
- If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
- If you lose self-control everything will fall.
- If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
- If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.
- If you want to awaken all of humanity, awaken all of yourself.
- If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
- If you want to realize the ideal, make yourself more ideal.
- If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.
- If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
- You become what you give your attention to…If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will.
- If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.
- Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
- In football we always said that the other team couldn't beat us. We had to be sure that we didn't beat ourselves. And that's what people have to do, too - make sure they don't beat themselves.
- In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself.
- In the measure that you master self, that you control your mental forces instead of being controlled by them, in just such measure will you master affairs and outward circumstances.
- In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
- Internal victories precede external victories.
- It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teachings.
- It is a great folly not to part with your own faults, which is possible, but to try instead to escape from other people's faults, which is impossible.
- It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.
- It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
- It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
- It is folly for him to rule over others who cannot govern himself.
- It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world — a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one — is to fix yourself.
- It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of them.
- It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
- It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.
- It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
- It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
- It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
- It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.