Self-Leadership
545 quotes: 55 by Keith Craft, 490 from other voices.
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- Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
- 'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
- Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- Leadership is something that you must invite yourself into; it will never thrust itself upon you.
- Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.
- Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.
- Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
- Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
- Listen and be open, but don’t let anybody tell you who you are.
- Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
- Man is made great or little by his own will.
- Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.
- Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world.
- Maturity is the ability to delay gratification in pursuit of a greater goal.
- Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
- Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings.
- Men are afraid of breaking down where they are strongest, but are seldom afraid of their weaknesses.
- Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
- Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into commonsense.
- Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
- Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
- Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- My environment may be making me what I am, but I am permitting the environment.
- My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.
- Never act in a Passion. If you do, all is lost. You cannot act for yourself if you are not yourself, and passion always drives out reason.
- Never apologize for being yourself.
- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
- Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.
- Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so.
- Never let your emotions rule, but always let them testify.
- Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.