Top 1200 Belief In Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

The self doubt can be a fantastic opportunity to self-reflect and see where you can grow and be stronger.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective belief acquisition is seen in mechanistic terms, but when philosophers talk about reflection, it is as if reflective processes are not bound by the kinds of limitations which inevitably arise from being embedded within the same causal structure which governs unreflective belief acquisition.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory belief that we've almost forgotten the real truth about happiness. So busy are we trying to deserve happiness that we no longer have much time for ideas such as: Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. The moment you believe that happiness has to be deserved, you must toil forevermore.

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.