Top 1200 Self Giving Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.

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.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

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

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

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

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

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

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

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

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

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

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

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

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

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

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

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

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

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

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

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

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

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

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-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

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