Top 1200 Self-Delusion Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

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

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

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.

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

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

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

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

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Never underestimate the human capacity for delusion.

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing is fixed or foolproof; I have no delusion about that.

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

Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

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

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.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

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

Ideation without execution is delusion

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

Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

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.

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

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

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

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

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

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

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.

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

When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive humility; (2) Give up pride and self-delusion; (3) Practice loving kindness; (4) Give up anger, hatred and vindictiveness; (5) Practice generosity; (6) Avoid greed and stealing in its different aspects; (7) Practice honesty; (8) Avoid maliciousness and exploiting lies; (9)Practice moderation; (10) Avoid excessiveness; (11) Do not allow yourself to be enslaved by your lower nature

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.

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

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

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

'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!'

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

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.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Vision without execution is delusion.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

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

The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

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

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.

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

Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.