#yourself

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.' ↗

— Chuck D.

#because #even #i #in the past #includes

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#acquired #affairs #assuring #born #control

Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#decisions #doing #ends #get #god

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. ↗

— John le Carre

#ever #guess #i #i think #kill

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. ↗

— Iris Chang

#duty #else #first #please #towards

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#driving #evidence #excel #faith #getting

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#especially #everybody #hardest #the hardest thing #thing

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#cheated #cunning #easiest #easiest way #more

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#lost #person #something #sweet #very

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. ↗