Top 1200 Self-Improvement Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

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.

I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.

We have to improve at club level - and at the international level, there is a lot of room for improvement.

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

The only improvement I know in football is through work, it is the only way for the team to grow.

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.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

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

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

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

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

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.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

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

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

There is always room for improvement, but I am happy with what I am doing on the pitch.

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.

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.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

What annoys me? People that aren't willing to look at change or look at improvement.

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

Some players are more fortunate than others to have coaches who are more focused on improvement.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

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.

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.

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

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's 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.

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.

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

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.

Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.

The healthier people are, the more they are willing to admit to their limitations and so the more open they are to the possibility of improvement.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

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

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

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.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

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