Top 1200 Self-Denial Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.

The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world, and the doctrine that physical and psychological pain are the greatest evils.

There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

To say 'I quit' brings a lot of criticism, but to get disqualified and say the ref was unfair and harsh, in denial - fans will jump on that.

When we turn our backs on feelings we should deal with, they fester and grow and ultimately consume us. Silence is denial. Silence is anxiety.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

It disturbs me mostly...is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when all the record (shows) it is not toxic, ... is safe, ... and is effective.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.