Top 1200 Self Inflicted Wounds Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

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

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

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

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

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.

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

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

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

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

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

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works

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

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

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

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

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

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

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

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

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

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

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

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

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

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

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-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence.

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

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

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

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

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

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

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

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

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

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

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

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.