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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Bo Bennett

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Honesty

Man

Self

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Max Beckmann

Problems

Self

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

Walter Becker

Self

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Martha Beck

Self

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.