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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
— John Galsworthy
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
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
Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.
— John S. Savage
If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?
— John C. Maxwell
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
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
Every sin comes from the love of self.
— John Of Kronstadt
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