Top 1200 Self-Discipline Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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

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 human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

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

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

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

Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.

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.

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.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

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.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

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

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

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

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about 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 true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

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.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.