Top 1200 Self Giving Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Those inner-cities, they're not giving kids a chance. They're not giving the teachers a chance to really help those kids. They're making it real tough. You're either gonna help or you're hurting your own country.

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

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

My wife's a really keen baker, and her mother is also a really keen baker, so they were giving me a little hand over the weekend, and giving me tips, things like that.

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back Amen

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

I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?

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

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

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

Don't be thinking that this lama over there is giving better teachings or that this lama over here is giving more secret initiations. Leave that. Just keep the practice very simple, try to stay in the moment and try to stay mindful.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. It resonates in your body in a way that feels extraordinary.

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

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

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

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

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

Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.

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

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

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

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.

The greatest joy comes from giving and serving, so replace your habit of focusing exclusively on yourself and what's in it for you. When you make the shift to supporting others in your life, without expecting anything in return, you'll think less about what you want and find comfort and joy in the act of giving and serving.

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

The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.

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.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.

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

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

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

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

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 necessary to give freely if we are to receive freely. The law of receiving includes giving. The knowledge that substance is omnipresent and that people cannot, therefore, impoverish themselves by giving (but rather will increase their supply) will enable us to give freely and cheerfully.

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.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

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

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

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

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