Top 1200 Self Being Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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.

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

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.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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

It's a dangerous world out there when it comes to relationships. And I believe we attract what we are. So I want to work on being my best self so I can attract the same.

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

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

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

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

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

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

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

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.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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

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

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

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another person.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

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

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.

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

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

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.

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.