Top 1200 Inspirational Self Esteem Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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

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

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

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

Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?

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

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

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful.

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.

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

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.

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

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

In fact, Mario Parisi and my father are probably the two most inspirational figures when it comes to my growth as a company leader.

If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.

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.

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

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 am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to go through the procedure of abortion and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, 'Oh, I don't mind to have one,' every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem smaller and smaller and smaller.

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

We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery. And, while we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.

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.

In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is constantly critical of you, one who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault on your self-esteem, your sense of dignity, your confidence, and your joy. In this person's care, you deserve to feel physically safe and emotionally secure.

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.

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.

It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

Hot Lips changed a lot in eleven years. Initially, Margaret Houlihan behaved as though a man were the only thing that could complete her life, and she didn't see what richness her life contained. She gained a lot of self-esteem through the years, and she came to realize that what she did, what she offered, was valuable.

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.

I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.

Read the Bible and inspirational books for a purpose. Ask for divine guidance. Search for the light.

I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.

Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity.

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

Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

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

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

I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.

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

Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.

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

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

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

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

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

I'd say that while it's normal to long for an apology, if you really need it, you're not ready to speak to whoever harmed you. Non-apologizers tend to walk on a tightrope of defensiveness above a huge canyon of low self-esteem - they just can't listen to anything that's going to set them off balance. So focus on what you say for your own sake, because you need to hear your own voice telling the truth.