Top 1200 Self-Discipline Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

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

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

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

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

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 you really must make the self.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

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

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

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.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

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

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.