Top 1200 Self Concept Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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

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

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

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

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

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.

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.

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

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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.

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 knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

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

The self cannot be self without other selves.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

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

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.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

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

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.

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

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

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

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

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.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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

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

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

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

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

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

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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.