Top 1200 Self Confident Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

I'm confident in what I can do.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

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

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He's the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

I'm confident.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.