It becomes toxic when it strips a person of hope, damages their self-esteem or detrimentally affects their self-confidence,. (Quote by - Peter Frost)

Our data demonstrate that the students who exhibited sensitivity to prejudice and discrimination also reported having less self-control of their academic lives. They found it harder to take effective notes, create quiet study spaces and keep to a study schedule. We also know from correlating their responses with their SAT scores that this pattern isn't related to their academic ability -- something about the experience of being stigmatized taps that limited source of self-regulation and interferes with their self-control. (Quote by - Michael Inzlicht)

Successful self-development also involves taking more self-time to be quiet and think for oneself!. (Quote by - Patrick Driessen)

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves. (Quote by - Paul Valery)

I shall fully explain to you the Self-knowledge together with Self-realization after knowing that nothing more remains to be known in this world. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)

The commitment I made to the council .. is that the building will never be a strain on the general public -- the building will always be self-sufficient. Thus far it has been self-sufficient. (Quote by - Jack Ellis)

It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. (Quote by - Grenville Kleiser)

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson. (Quote by - Bruce Catton)

The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)

They, whose mind and intellect are absorbed in the Self, who remain firmly attached with the Self, who have Self as their supreme goal, whose sins have been destroyed by the knowledge, do not take birth again. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)

The saddest are those not right in their lives(Quote by - they act only from the self --)

These are regarded as simply Western exercises in self-absorption, self-indulgence and self-flagellation, and completely alien to the Chinese situation. (Quote by - Roland Soong)

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. (Quote by - Confucius)

It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do. (Quote by - Charly Heavenrich)

Considering that, all hatred driven hence,(Quote by - And learns at last that it is self-delighting,)

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage. (Quote by - Alain French)

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect alive and growing. (Quote by - Maxwell Maltz)

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . (Quote by - Anne Bronte)

When your intellect, that is confused by the conflicting opinions and the ritualistic doctrine of the Vedas, shall stay steady and firm with the Self, then you shall attain Self-realization. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)

Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)

The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self. (Quote by - Katha Upanishad)

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

It's self-dedication, self-motivation, maintenance of your feelings. It's having the ability to fall and fall and fall and get up and keep doing it, keep doing it. It's realizing you've made a mistake and going out there and fixing it. It takes a kid that's really got the inner drive to be better. (Quote by - Amy Nyman)