Top 1200 Self-Doubt Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

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

I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

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.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

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

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

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.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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

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

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

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

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

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

A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.

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

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

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.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

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

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

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

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

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

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

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

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

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

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

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

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 essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

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

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

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

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

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

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

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

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

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

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.

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-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

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

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.