Top 1200 Self-Image Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.

For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

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

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

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

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

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

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

Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

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

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

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.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

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.

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