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Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy. — John Mulaney

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. — John J. McCloy

So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries,
She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. — John Steinbeck

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. — John Henry Newman

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness. — John Ortberg

The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness. — John O'Donohue

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world. — John De Ruiter

Most people think of poise as calm, self-assured dignity; but I call it "just being you". — John Wooden

We first make our habits, then our habits make us. — John Dryden

Man is emphatically self-made. — John Henry Newman

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. — John Berger

I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel — John Keats

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church. — John Piper

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. — John F. Kennedy

You're a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you were not made to be self-sufficient. — John Ortberg

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self. — John De Ruiter

In a competition for mates a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. The same is true in politics and and other contexts — John Gray

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220 — John Kuypers

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one! — John Keats

When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love. — John Kuypers

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. — John Steinbeck

You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment. — John Kuypers

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships. — John Gray

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance
do not sacrifice that to anything else. — John D. Rockefeller

If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self. — John De Ruiter

Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'. — John Green

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. — John Dryden

For you to be free of your thinking mind, that will cost you the way that you've put your self together. It will cost you your patterned self. — John De Ruiter

Idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, and — John Green

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart ... — John Geddes

There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment. — John Kuypers

The more that you bypass of your own mechanisms, the more in your self that will come apart. — John De Ruiter

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens. — John Agard

My natural self is John Goodman. If I relaxed, I'd be him. — Tim Daly

Preachers love only their own voices. — John Berger

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present. — John Kuypers

Your private self must become the same as your public self. — John Kuypers

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret. — John Assaraf

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. — John Calvin

What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem. — Ayn Rand

Love and Trust God, It's a life time commitment!!! — John Dye

I never wanted to come off as self-important. — John Cusack

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. — John Calvin

Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know ... — John Geddes

Your past determines your future unless you're clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart. — John De Ruiter

Faith is a total attitude of the self. — John Macquarrie

Releasing yourself from yesterday's and tomorrow's thoughts brings you to the power of the present moment. Now that's truly living for today! — Denis John George

The infinite is a light sleeper. The moment the self awakens, the force of the infinite begins to stir. — John O'Donohue

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung. — John Milton

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self. — John Eccles

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet. — John D. MacDonald

Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines - as well as upon works! — John Newton

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. — John Gay

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice. — John Osborne

This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. — John Irving

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! — John Lennon

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike

We each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires ... — John Geddes

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people. — John Galsworthy

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results. — John Gray

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self. — John Darnielle

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. — John Dryden

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in. — John Turturro

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth. — John Kasich

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God ... without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self. — John Calvin

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime. — John Barrasso

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self. — John Novak

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. — John Charles Chasteen

She who follows another's course, finds a sure path to her own remorse. — John Kramer

Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure. — John S. Savage

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else? — John C. Maxwell

What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self. — John Bowlby

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master. — John Clark

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything. — John Gielgud

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. — John Irving

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. — John Mayer

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors. — John Spence

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. — John Green

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward. — John Updike

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers. — Robert A. Heinlein

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me. — John Howard Griffin

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances. — John C. Maxwell

Rule #1: Life is supposed to be fun! — John McGrail

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. — John Updike

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there. — John Banville

Every sin comes from the love of self. — John Of Kronstadt

We fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves ... — John Geddes

I am not all sneers and scathings, you see, I have my gentler side. — John Banville

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. — John Galt

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness. — John Piper

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no. — Bill Walton

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable. — John Wooden

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. — John Milton

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie. — John Irving

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied. — John Cassian