Top 1200 Self-Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

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

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

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

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

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

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

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

May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government... All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

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

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

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

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

They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired body of men. It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness ... Who can fail to see it in the hand of Destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence?

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

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

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

I am kind of a sucker for democracy, so I do think that what kinds of citizens we have in our societies are more foundational than what kinds of governments we have, and that the responsibility for self-government is ultimately with us. But we also have learned through a couple thousand years of democracy that democracies are only as good as people's capacity to reflect on those questions.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

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

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

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

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

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

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.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

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-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

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

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

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

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.

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

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

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.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

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.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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