Top 1200 Real Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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-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?

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

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

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

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

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

There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is essentially your spirit, the spirit being an abstract but real force. It is as real as gravity. It is as real as time. It is incomprehensible. It is mysterious but it is powerful and it is eternal.

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

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.

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

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

Real Madrid are Real Madrid, and any player would want to be at Real Madrid. Why would I want to leave Real Madrid? I wanted to play, nothing else.

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

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

I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature. But the universal consciousness of the real Ego transcends a million fold the self-consciousness of the personal for false ego.

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

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

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

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

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

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

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

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

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

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

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.