Top 1200 Self Giving Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Just like in life, when you play basketball, you have to give in order to receive. On the court, you're not only making things move along by giving the ball, but you're also giving your physical and mental strength, your passion, your talent, your trust in your teammates. This way the power can multiply and the whole team wins.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

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

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract him into doing? Buying you a nice house? Giving you the space to guide your own life? Or, offering his deepest gifts to you and all beings while opening his heart to God? Are you a selfish witch, a self-sufficient witch, or a witch for the sake of drawing your man and all beings open as a gift for all?

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

The real challenge the rich young man faced was not just giving up his possessions, but giving up himself. The last command Jesus says ("Come, follow me") is the one that we so often overlook and think that he must have left Jesus simply because he liked his green bills.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

If expecting something in return is your reason for giving, you are really not giving- you're swapping. If you receive something in return for your gift, what you receive is a bonus - not a repayment of a debt.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.