Top 1200 Old Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.