Top 1200 Self-Development Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

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

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.”• “Play is the highest level of child development . . . It gives . . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world . . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life.”• “Children are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.

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.

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

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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.

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.

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

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

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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

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

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.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

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.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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

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.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

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

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

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

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.

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.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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

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

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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 difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

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

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.

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

That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.