Top 1200 Self-Deception Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

When I got back from shooting 'Deception,' I was under contract with NBC, so I can't really do anything.

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.