Top 1200 Self-Denial Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

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

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

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

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

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.

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

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

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.

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

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

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

Acknowledging that there's something you desire, not going after it, and deciding that, 'You know what, it's fine; I'll just focus on what I do have, make myself a ham sandwich, and call it a day,' isn't happiness. It's denial.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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

It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

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

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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

It's difficult to be alive in America today and truly be in denial anymore. It's not hip to be unconscious or uninvolved. One of our great strengths is that we're an optimistic people, but that doesn't mean we don't have sad days.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

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

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate.

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

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

Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

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

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

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.

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

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

I'm not against shock and horror. In fact, I really belive in facing the dark realities of our time as the first step in coming out of denial. So we have to look into the darkness.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

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

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

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.

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

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.

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

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

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

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.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

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.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity