Top 1200 Self Criticism Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

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

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.

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

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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

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.

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-education only produces expressions of self.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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

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.

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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.

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

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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

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

The self cannot be self without other selves.

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.

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

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

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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-government won't work without self-discipline.

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

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.

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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

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

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-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.