Top 1200 Old Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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

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

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

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

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

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

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

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

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

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

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

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

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

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

Old people can make me cry. I worry about getting old, and old people inspire me to live life to the full.

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

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

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

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.

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

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

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

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

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

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

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

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

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

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

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

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

My son, who is 7, he passed a car in a parking lot that was probably a 1998 model, and he said, 'Wow, Dad, look at that old car.' I was looking around for an old car, and I realized that my old car maybe stops at 1965.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.

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

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

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

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

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

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

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

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

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

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

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

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.