Top 1200 Self-Discipline Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

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.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

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

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

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.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

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.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

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.

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.

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.