Top 1200 Self-Help Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

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

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.

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

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

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

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

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

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

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

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

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

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

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

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

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

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

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

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

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

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

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

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

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

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

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

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

This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101' or the 'Art of the Deal' or, really, back to 'Art of the Deal'. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

We live in a very mollycoddled society where the slightest bit of discomfort is seen as wrong, but that discomfort is there for a reason. It's supposed to trigger some form of action, some form of change, a realization of a truth - something, and I think the self-help world has you believing that you should be happy all the time.

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.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

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

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

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

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

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

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

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.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

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

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

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

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.

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

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

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

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

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.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.