Top 1200 Self-Denial Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.

It's supposed to be fun. You should come to work every day and not have insecurities and not be self-conscious; just be your wonderful, perfect self.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

I went into the surgery room as my former self Neeru Bheda but came out as a new and improved version of my own self - Rakhi Sawant.

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.