Top 1200 Self-Destructive Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery whether it comes from the left, it comes from the right.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

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.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

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

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.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

The destructive impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced in 2013, is by now well known.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

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

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

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

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

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

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

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

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

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

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

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

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

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

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

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