Respect - Respect Yourself Quotes

About You Respecting Others, You Respecting Yourself, Others Respecting You... And about Being Humble

When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching )


Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Heschel

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph Sockman

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Edgar Watson Howe

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood

Men are respectable only as they respect
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

When To Sell Shares Or A General Rule for Everything You Undertake

This quote from an American business tycoon ...

Fortunes have been made by those selling too early.

... is very similar to this quote from the Tao Te Ching

Better stop short than fill to the brim.
Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.

Retire when the work is done.
This is the way of heaven.

The Unexpected

We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho

On Mastery

We live in a "quick-fix" society. We want everything in a flash. ... The path of mastery rises above the world of the "quick-fix." Mastery of your mind, body and character, just like mastery of any other activity, requires discipline, persistence and hard work. But the results will change every element of your life and you will undersand that there truly is no more noble cause than strenghtening yourself.
Robin Sharma

The Importance of Good Food

You are what you eat. By transforming your diet, you can dramatically reshape your body, moods, energy levels and overall vitality.
Robin Sharma

The "sattivic" or pure diet is one based on living foods - those created by the natural interaction of the sun, air, soil and water. The "sattivic" diet emphasizes fruits (and their fresh juices), vegetables and grains.
Robin Sharma

Euripides on Happiness

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Account no man happy till he dies.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at it's sails.

Joy Quotes - Continued: Joy is a Choice

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Akhenaton


There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus


A real education will not teach you to be the first. It will tell you to enjoy whatever you are doing, not for the result, but for the act itself.
Osho


My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.
Jenna Elfman


Joy and sorrow are inseparable - together they come and when one sits alone with you, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran


Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp


The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde


Don't move the way fear makes you move.Move the way love makes you move.Move the way joy makes you move.
Osho


Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller


The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck


I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John Rockefeller


Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain


Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.
Osho


The first and most important step,is intention: making the decision to be happy.
James Baraz


Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare


The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos


Indeed, there is ample evidence that a joy-filled workplace improves financial performance.
Dennis Bakke


We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran


Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes

Prayer vs. Meditation

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

Diana Robinson

Less Is More

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours. Proverb (Sweden)

O Divine Master,

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
From the Prayer of Saint Francis

Priest or Psychiatrist, and the Meaning of Life

More and more, a psychiatrist is approached today by patients who confront him with human problems rather than neurotic symptoms. Some of the people who nowadays call on a psychiatrist would have seen a pastor, priest or rabbi in former days. Now they often refuse to be handed over to a clergyman and instead confront the doctor with questions such as, "What is the meaning of my life?"

Viktor E. Frankl

Cosmic Energy

'Kundalini' = Vital force of cosmic energy embodied in everyone, and pictured as a coiled serpent at the base of the spine.

Sadder and Wiser

A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn

S.T. Coleridge

God and Philosophy

When you believe in God, and seriously philosophize with others about God, there is the possibility that, in the course of a conversation, you will start thinking differently of Him, or even completely (and temporarily) give up the idea of God.

If you do not a priori accept this possibility, then you are as a child that always listens to its farther, and never to somebody else. Such a child is allowed to play, but nobody expects that this child would practice philosophy.

L.J.C. Parsam

Don’t Give Up Now

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harrier Stowe

Adversity Quotes

There is no education like adversity.

Quotes about Books and Reading

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
Leo Tolstoy

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec


How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway

Addiction Quotes

By degrees a person should become free of unwholesome and unnatural habits; similarly, one should try to develop wholesome natural habits. The way of doing this is to replace the unnatural with the natural. If withdrawal is gradual, addiction does not reappear; wholesome habits, gradually acquired, become firmly implanted.
Charaka Samhita

Reality Quotes

What we see of the real world is not the unvarnished real world but a model of the real world, regulated and adjusted by sense data - a model that is constructed so that it is useful for dealing with the real world.
Richard Dawkins

Existence - And How We Perceive It

We don't exist in the way in which we think we have understood ourselves.
Jan Haasbroek

Will Power

There is not great talent without great will power.
Honoré de Balzac

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
The Richest Man in Babylon, George Clason


Proverbs

Where there's a will, there's a way.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Self Control Quotes

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.
Carrie Latet

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
Norman Vincent Peale


Self control goes in two directions - to stop yourself from doing something, and to oblige yourself to do something, e.g. to have courage...

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova

Solitude

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Voltaire

Dalai Lama - Inner Peace and Ultimate Truth

Quotes from the 14th Dalai Lama

World peace begins with inner peace.

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.

I feel for a successful and happy life much of it depends on our mental outlook. The money, power or even health, I think is secondary. If mental state is calm, at peace, then you really enjoy your life.

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch (­Benedict de) Spinoza

A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Life without Disturbance, Soldiers of Fate

But those occupied with the prognostication of the future and the truth, by gaining a soul free and not enslaved, think slightly of fortune, and do not obstinately persist in hope, and do not fear death, but spend their lives without disturbance by training the soul ahead of time to be confident, and neither rejoice excessively in the case of good nor are depressed in the case of foul, and are content with what is present. And those who are not in love with the impossible carry along that which ordained, and being estranged from all pleasure or flattery, they are established as soldiers of fate.

Vettius Valens