Top 1200 Self Defence Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.

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

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

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.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren't fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist and racist presumptions... Well, there just aren't many comfortable ways to take that. And in the face of discomfort comes the mask of defence.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

To be successful you have to find a good balance between offence and defence, to work without the ball, but our main tactic is to work with the ball, to be in possession.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

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