Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Self Quotes, Development Quotes

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Errors Quotes , Self Quotes

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.

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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

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He who conquers self conquers all.

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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Grateful Quotes , Self Quotes

One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

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Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

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There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

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If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

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Self praise is no praise at all.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Self Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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