Edmund Burke Quotes

When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

I better be humble. I'm always checking myself.

If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.