Top 1200 Best Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

I'm one of the best producers, one of the best singers. You hear me? I'm not just one of the best rappers. I'm one of the greatest ever.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

As long as you keep in mind that what you're looking for is the best person, regardless of anything else, you're going to find the best of the best.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Mr. Bachchan is one of the best things to have happened in my life. The best teacher, the best guru.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

Any fighter worth his salt wants to be the best and to be the best you have to fight the best.

This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

With Cristiano Ronaldo, who is the best player in the world, Juventus are the best team in Europe or at least one of the best teams.

If I win the title, I want to know I was the best guy that year, and to be the best, you've got to go against the best.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me.

For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.

My goal is to be the best. That's my thing I want to achieve - the best that I can be - and hopefully, that's the best player in the NBA.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.

You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.

There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge