Top 1200 Self-Deprecating Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it... It is unrequited self-love.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

I guess I'm rather self-destructive, and I like to give other people who are self-destructive a song to sing.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they're not self-aware, I think it's harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive.

Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

Everybody I grew up with has incredible self-confidence and self-assurance. We were all loud, outspoken, wild kids and were celebrated for it.

There's a paradox with self-improvement, and it is this: the ultimate goal of all self-improvement is to reach the point where you no longer feel the need to improve yourself.

When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered."

An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.

I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.

I heard I was the self-proclaimed White Mamba, which I can say I have never self-proclaimed myself anything.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

Being your self its all a takes if you want to be impressed someone dont be some one else just be your self

I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.