#elf

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#alone #lead #self-control #self-knowledge #sovereign

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#does #down #ever #friends #got

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#better #god #heaven #helping #how

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#always #am #because #i #i am

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ↗

— Tertullian

#confers #dies #himself #lives #only

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#entire #entire life #gift #great #great gift

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#chancellor #foreign #give #i #jobs

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#freeing #i #issues #me #my own

And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#celebrate #doing #etiquette #film #having

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#characters #i #i tried #mean #myself