Top 1200 Self-Awareness Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Awareness is empowering.

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.