Top 1200 Self Giving Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

When my parents force-fed me healthy food, they were confident they were giving me the best. But now, when I feed my children, I am not sure if what I am giving them is safe. Politics and pesticides are destroying our food culture.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

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

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.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

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

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

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

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

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.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

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

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

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.

I think the trauma of giving birth made me feel vulnerable and I wasn't invincible. Giving birth made me feel like I could die at any minute.

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

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

Instagram is just a way of showing the world a little piece of what you're like. You're not really giving everything away - it's not like you're making videos every second; you're just giving a little picture of what's happening in your life. No one can really completely figure it out.

I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back." "You're kidding, right?" He shrugged. "You have no proof either." She squinted back at him. "Were you planning on giving it back?" "Maybe." An orange light blinked on in the corner of Cinder's vision-her cyborg programming picking up on the lie.

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

The self cannot be self without other selves.

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

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.

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

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

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.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

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

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.

I'm giving my fans the songs that they want to hear from me. Why do we love to hear ourselves being downgraded. Why do we love to hear the negative situations that we see in our lives daily? I'm not trying to make sense of it, I'm not giving any solutions, I'm just tossing the question.

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.

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

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.

Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

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

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.

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

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.

Every year, I hear about Thanksgiving. Who do one give thanks to? ... And who is giving thanks? What are they giving thanks for? For lots of poverty that's on the earth and lots of war that is a-rumoring all over the earth? For lots of people who die daily and the crime that multiply?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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