Top 1200 Best Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

You are your best self when you give yourself away.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

Bring the best of your Authentic Self to every opportunity.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

When it comes to content, the best marketers know that self promotion is good!

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.

A true friend holds you accountable to your best self.

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.