If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
- Topic: Self, Self-esteem
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The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
› Claude Bernard
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
› Napoleon Hill
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
› Mark Twain
A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
› Lao-tzu
Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.
› Buddha
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
› Paulo Coelho
Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
› Nelson Mandela
I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.
› Ayn Rand
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
› G. K Chesterton
Esteem to your higher self.
› Jeffrey Benjamin
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
› Maya Angelou
