Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Aggravating Annoy Annoying Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Aplomb Assertive Assertiveness Assured At Ease Bashful Bashfulness Boldness Bothersome Can Do Confident Coolheaded Courage Coyness Cursed Demureness Diffidence Diffident Embarrassed Embarrassment Exasperating Extrovert Extroverted Farouche Funny Galling Girl Girls Hilarious Humor Humorous Humour Imperturbable Infuriating Inhibited Insecure Introversion Introvert Introverted Irksome Irritate Irritating Irritation Joke Jokes Lack Of Confidence Levelheaded Maddening Man Men Mettle Mousiness Mousy Nerve Nervous Nettlesome Obnoxious Pesky Phlegm Phlegmatic Poise Poised Positive Quotations Quotes Repressed Reserve Reserved Reservedness Reticence Reticent Retiring Satire Self Assurance Self Assured Self Confidence Self Confident Self Conscious Self Consciousness Self Effacing Self Possessed Self Possession Self Reliant Sheepish Sheepishness Shy Shyness Timid Timidity Timidness Timorous Timorousness Tiresome Together Troublesome Trying Unconfident Unperturbed Unruffled Vexatious Vexing Withdrawn

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Aplomb Assertiveness Better Bettered Boldness Boy Boyfriend Boyfriends Boys Confidence Confident Courage Esteem Funny Girl Girlfriend Girlfriends Girls Hilarious Humor Humorous Humour Husband Husbands Improve Improved In Secret Secretly Joke Jokes Kill Kill Herself Over Kill Himself Over Kill Oneself Over Kill Yourself Over Killed Killed Herself Over Killed Himself Over Killing Yourself Over Lover Lovers Man Men Mettle Nerve Phlegm Poise Romeo And Juliet Satire Secret Self Assurance Self Confidence Self Esteem Self Murder Self Murders Self Possession Suicidal Suicide Suicides Wife Wives Woman Women

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

~ Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill Character Personhood Self Possession

But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Maturity Responsibility Self Possession Self Reflection

A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit. In the heat of battle he remains cool; in the midst of catastrophes he keeps level his mind. Earthquakes do not shake him, he laughs at storms. We admire him as truly great, who, in the menacing presence of danger or death, retains his self-possession; who, for instance, can compose a poem under impending peril or hum a strain in the face of death. Such indulgence betraying no tremor in the writing or in the voice, is taken as an infallible index of a large nature—of what we call a capacious mind (Yoyū), which, far from being pressed or crowded, has always room for something more.

~ Inazo Nitobe

Inazo Nitobe Bravery Bushido Equanimity Self Possession Serenity Yoyu

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

~ Ruth Downie

Ruth Downie Freedom Self Possession Self Worth Strength Of A Woman Strength Through Adversity