Top 1200 Real Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

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

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

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.

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

I truly consider sports stars as the real stars because they represent our country, which makes them really stand apart. I don't think I can be one of them, and I just find them extremely confident and self-made.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

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

I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of cardboard cutouts and stuff like that. They don't. They kill real people, real children, real mothers and millions of innocent people.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

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

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.

There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

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

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.

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

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

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

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

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

What people really haven't thought about with real estate is, if you get tax reform, you're going to see real estate now... the velocity of selling and buying real estate will just kick.

Because a real kiss, a kiss that two real people choose to give each other - it's something that can't be filmed or photographed or drawn, or even described with words. Because a kiss isn't what it looks like or how it feels. A real kiss happens down deep inside of two hearts at the same time. It's hidden away. A real kiss is invisible.

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

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

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

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

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

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

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.