Top 1200 Positive Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

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

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

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

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

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

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

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

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

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

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

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

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

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

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

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.

I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches - especially when you're a child - it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.

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

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

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

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.