Top 1200 Belief In Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

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.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.