Top 1200 Self Gratification Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

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.

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

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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

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

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

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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

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

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

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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.

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

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

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.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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