Self-Leadership
545 quotes: 55 by Keith Craft, 490 from other voices.
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- Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.
- No conflict is so severe as his who labours to subdue himself.
- No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own.
- No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
- No man is free who cannot command himself.
- No man is free who is not master of himself.
- No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.
- No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.
- No matter what other people may think about your ability never allow yourself to doubt that you can do or become what you long to do or become.
- No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.Friedrich NietzscheSourced
- Nobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves.
- Nobody’s responsible for our problems but us.
- Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.
- Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
- Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us.
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
- Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
- Nothing can work me damage except myself.
- Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
- Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
- Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.
- Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.
- On the occasion of every accident (event) that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
- Once you are clear about what you are doing and why, other people’s opinions will not matter.
- One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.
- One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
- One of the most important, but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is, to be its own master. A pond may lie quiet in a plain; but a lake wants mountains to compass and hold it in.
- One who conquers others is strong. One who conquers himself is all-powerful.
- Only action gives life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
- Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own, behind our back.
- Others can stop you temporarily; you are the only one who can do it permanently.
- Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.
- Own time, or time will own you.
- People do not lack strength; they lack will.
- People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
- People think they can’t change themselves, but they can. People think they can change others, but they can’t.
- People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents.
- People who consult their moods, their preferences, or their ease never make a great success in life. It is the man who gets a firm grip on himself and forces himself to do the thing that will ultimately be best for him, who succeeds.
- Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.