Top 1200 Positive Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

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

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

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

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

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

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

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

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

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

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

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief that your dream is possible is also helpful.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words. Let your words be positive for they will become your actions. Let your actions be positive for they will become your values. Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.

Positive energy is attracted to positive energy.

Reggae is a message of consolation; a message of salvation. The youth are going to the school and they have to listen to the words. The parents have to listen to the words. God has to listen to the words. So, we have to make it positive. If you sing nursery rhymes, it is nothing. You just blow up tomorrow, and the record dies at the same time. But if you give positive words, that song lives forever.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.