Quotes about Self

A person who cannot sacrifice will never belong to himself; he belongs to whatever he was unwilling to give up. If you want to develop maturity and gain the value of learning, you need to learn to give up some things today for greater gains tomorrow.

The way you take control of the direction of your life is to take responsibility for yourself and your everyday actions.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change what I see within me.

The only way to change how you view life is to change who you are on the inside.

Don't change your circumstances to improve your life—change yourself to improve your circumstances.

Without confidence in Christ we could be tempted to become egocentric and cocky. Without confidence in ourselves we are defeated, powerless Christians. Without confidence in others we are suspicious and untrusting.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Everything I desire is within me.

You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don't ever let anyone trample on them.

We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.