Top 1200 Self Inspirational Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.

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The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

I'm lucky to have so many supportive, inspirational people in my life.

The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

The most inspirational person in my life has been my mother.

Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.

Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.

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Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time and disappear at the same time. The Self is that where there is absolutely no 'I thought'. That is called 'Stillness'. The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

Almost every Spirit filled believer is able to prophesy on an inspirational level.

Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order to open the store of happiness. That true self is the reality, the Supreme Truth, which is the self of all the world you now see, the self of all the selves, the One real, the Supreme, the Eternal self - as distinct from the ego or the bodily idea for the self.

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.

Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

We have outstanding schools, world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

Inspirational content really resonates, like how to raise venture capital.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

I'm always on the lookout for projects with a strong moral and inspirational core.

You can profit by disappointment - if it is turned into inspirational dissatisfaction with a positive mental attitude.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

The hymn 'Amazing Grace' is so inspirational - I wish I'd written it.

I write down inspirational things on cards that I keep in my bag and look at during the round.

People like the feeling of access that is very raw, unedited, and inspirational.

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.