Self-Leadership
545 quotes: 55 by Keith Craft, 490 from other voices.
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- Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; without that the conqueror is only the first slave.
- Realize your inexhaustible power, then patiently apply it to a great and worthy purpose.
- Recovery is not negotiable. Make time to rest, rejuvenate, and recover now or make time to be sick, injured, and exhausted later.
- Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
- Respect yourself and others will respect you.
- Rule your mind or it will rule you.
- Rule your mind, which, if it is not your servant, is your master.
- Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
- Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding.Immanuel KantSourced
- Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
- Say to yourself a hundred times every day and mean it with all your heart: I will become more than I am.
- Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility, or softness; which taketh an honest mind prisoner.
- Self-control is at the root of all the virtues. Let a man yield to his impulses and passions, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.
- Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
- Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
- Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
- Self growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no higher investment.
- Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.
- Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
- Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
- Self-respect, the corner-stone of all virtue.
- Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
- Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit upon.
- Sin first is pleasing, then it grows easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined.
- Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
- Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of who we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.
- Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
- Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.
- Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
- Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
- Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
- Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
- That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.
- The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
- The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
- The best lightning-rod for your protection is your own spine.
- The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
- The best way to change the world is to start by changing yourself.