Top 1200 Self-Evident Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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.

One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look at his real physical involvement in the Resistance. He took part, there, in the combat against Nazism.

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.

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

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.