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Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated. -- Tyler Cowen
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right. -- Derrick Bell
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right. -- Derrick Bell
There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population. -- Tyler Cowen
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. -- Victor Hugo
In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. -- Donald G. Mitchell
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. -- Patanjali
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up. -- Nick Davies
The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist. -- Bertrand Russell
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. -- Denis Diderot
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description. -- Charles Stross
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart. -- Saint Bernard
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to. -- Beau Willimon
Work is an almost pure expression of the self. -- Chase Twichell
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed -- May Sarton
For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you. -- John de Ruiter
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence. -- Rumi
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. -- Richard Rohr
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All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. -- Marcel Duchamp
There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power. -- Amit Ray
Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it. -- Kevin DeYoung
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being. -- Hugh Prather
I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment. -- Jimmy Carter
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. -- Andrew Young
The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism. -- Denis Waitley
Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being. -- Harold Klemp
Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self. -- Adi Shankara
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I." -- Ramana Maharshi
The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance. -- Alberto Villoldo
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Self-expression has to come out pure. It has to have an environment waiting for it. It has to have a garden it can plant itself in. -- Melinda Gebbie
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure. -- Gautama Buddha
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving. -- Mortimer Adler
The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree. -- Swami Vivekananda
If you are pure in intention and in alignment with beauty and love, in body and mind, the highest levels of your spiritual self will subsume your weaknesses. -- Bryant McGill
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea. -- Ramana Maharshi

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