SELF

Be Good To You Be Yourself – Truthfully

Accept Yourself – Gracefully

Value Yourself – Joyfully

Forgive Yourself – Completely

Treat Yourself – Generously

Balance Yourself – Harmoniously

Bless Yourself – Abundantly

Trust Yourself – Confidently

Love Yourself – Wholeheartedly

Empower Yourself – Prayerfully

Give Yourself – Enthusiastically

Express Yourself – Radiantly

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Who sits in solitude and is quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking, seeing; yet against one thing shall he continually battle: that is, his own heart.

St. Antony

That favorite subject, Myself

James Boswell

But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Thomas Browne

If a man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand, and another conquer himself, he who conquers himself is the greater conqueror.

Buddha

God, harden me against myself.

Amy Carmichael

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius

I am having more trouble with myself than any other man I have ever met.

Raymond Dale

Some conjurors say that three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It’s neither, my friend, neither. It’s number one.

Charles Dickens

There is one work which is right and proper for us to do, and that is the eradication of self. But however great this eradication and reduction of self may be, it remains insufficient if God does not complete it in us. For our humility is only perfect when God humbles us through ourselves.

Meister Eckhart

The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

A person’s attitude toward himself has a profound influence on his attitude toward God, his family, his friends, his future, and many other significant areas of his life.

Bill Gothard

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

Madame Guyon

To fight against sin is to fight against the devil, the world and oneself. The fight against oneself is the worst fight of all.

Martin Luther

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Martin Luther

There is no smaller package than a person all wrapped up in himself.

Peter C. Moore

Self is the root, the branches, the tree, of all the evil of our fallen state.

Andrew Murray

All greatness grows great by self-abasement, and not by exalting itself.

Nestorius

There is a principle of self, which disposes us to despise those who differ from us; and we are often under its influence, when we think we are only demonstrating a becoming zeal in the cause of God.

John Newton

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I” is hateful.

Blaise Pascal

To conquer self is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Plato

If I long to improve my brother, the first step toward doing so is to improve myself.

Christina Rossetti

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

Seneca

When you get your own way, you nurse a hideous idol called self. But when you give up your own way, you get God.

Janet Erskin Stewart

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Joseph P. Thompson

Of Self and Me, the more of sin and wickedness and the more the Self, the I, the Me, the Mine, that is, self-seeking and selfishness, abate in a man, the more doth God’s I, that is, God Himself, increase.

Theologian Germanica

The I, the Self and the like must all be given up and done away.

Theologian Germanica

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.

A.W. Tozer