Top 1200 Self-Contained Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

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

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

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

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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

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

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

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.

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

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

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 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.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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.

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 knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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.

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.

Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that you can see on the page, and no matter who's saying it, it is, in and of itself, a funny line.

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.

I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

'Leaving Las Vegas' is a relationship; 'Dead Man Walking' is a relationship, and they're very contained movies. They're compressed and not in wide open spaces all over the place.

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

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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

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-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

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

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

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.