Top 1200 Self-Awareness Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

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

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

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

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.

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

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.

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

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.

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

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

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.

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.

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

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

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults you - listen to it in full awareness. And you will be surprised - the insult is no more an insult. You may even smile. It does not hurt; it hurts only when received in unawareness. Somebody praises and appreciates you - listen with alertness. And then nobody can persuade you to do foolish things. Nobody can bribe you; flattery becomes impossible. You will smile at the whole nonsense.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

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

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

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

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.

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

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

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

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

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.

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

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

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

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.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

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

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

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