Top 1200 Self Being Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong.

And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.

What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.

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

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

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

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

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

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

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

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

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

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

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

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.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.

What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition.

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

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.

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

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

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

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

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

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

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

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

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

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

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

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

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.

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

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

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

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

If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

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

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more.

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

Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

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