Quotes About Self

what we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Animals do not possess this ability. We call it "self-awareness" or the ability to think about your very thought process.

I am the creative force of my life.

We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.

Nadie puede convencer a otro de que cambie. Cada uno de nosotros custodia una puerta del cambio que solo puede abrirse desde adentro. No podemos abrir la puerta de otro, ni con argumentos ni con apelaciones emocionales.

We are the instrument of our own performance

Quality begins with me. And I need to make my own decisions based on carefully selected principles and values.

We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.

As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, "No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Inside-out" means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self—with your paradigms, your character, and your motives.

it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk." It's honor with self, a fundamental part of the Character Ethic, the essence of proactive growth.

But is there a chance that efficiency is not the answer? Is getting more things done in less time going to make a difference—or will it just increase the pace at which I react to the people and circumstances that seem to control my life? Could there be something I need to see in a deeper, more fundamental way—some paradigm within myself that affects the way I see my time, my life, and my own nature?

He records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

The inside-out approach says that private victories

Being is seeing in the human dimension. And what we see is highly interrelated to what we are.

what we see is highly interrelated to what we are.

To change the situation, you must first change yourself. To change yourself, you must first change your perceptions.

Yo soy la fuerza creativa de mi vida».

misnomer—the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Satisfaction is a function of expectation as well as realization. And expectation (and satisfaction) lie in our Circle of Influence.

We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about these things separates us from them and from the animal world.

But you just can't do it; you simply have to travel the road. You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.