Top 1200 Self Defeating Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

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.

Local Arab partners and the Iraqi government must lead the fight against ISIL. U.S. military advisers are important to this effort, but we cannot be engaged in combat operations. That is why Congress must revoke the previous war authorization and define our appropriate role in defeating ISIL.

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.

When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves or someone else, or if it will tear down. The question is not what we can get away with, but what is healthy and edifying. When it is all said and done, are we edified spiritually? Have we been built up and strengthened in our relationship with the Lord or with our spouse, or have we been weakened? Do we come away encouraged or discouraged, confident or filled with a sense of guilt or shame? Is our conscience clean?

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

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

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-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

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?

Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

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

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

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

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

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

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.

The enduring responsibility of the United States Air Force is to provide strategic deterrence for the Nation and fly, fight and win as an integral part of the Joint Team. Together with our brothers and sisters in arms, we underwrite the national strategy of defending the Homeland and assuring allies, while dissuading, deterring and defeating enemies.

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

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.

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.

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

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

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Loving ourselves is about acceptance, not always liking and feeling comfortable. In the same way I love my fiancé, I love him but don't always like his behavior. I don't always like what he says. But I accept him. I accept him because of these things. It doesn't mean I don't want our relationship to grow or progress. But I don't feel the need to change him. When I accept him for him, we grow naturally, and the same for our own self-love.

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

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

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

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

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.

...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.

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

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

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

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.

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