Quotes and Sayings about Self-Deception

Stop pitying yourself. Pity yourself, and life becomes an endless nightmare.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

I wanted to run away that day, but you can't run away from your own feet.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today - for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

It's amazing how productive doing nothing can be.

Can't spell inspiration without procrastination.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put pants on.

Laziness is the mother of all bad habits. But ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her!

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If you give it your all, there's nothing to blame yourself for.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real.

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.

The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

Justice is a weapon. It can be used to cause harm, but it cannot protect or save others.

A good book is always good, no matter how many times you've already read it.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

I've only ever regretted the things I didn't do.

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

My dream was to help my hometown, a small island hidden under the A in Atlantic, called Swallow Falls. We were one of the leading exporters of sardines. Until the day Baby Brent Sardine cannery closed when everyone realized that sardines... are super gross.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Human strength exists to be shared with those who are in the depths of despair.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

She was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty.