Top 1200 Self-Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

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

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

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

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

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.

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

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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

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.

Enjoy it - making music is a wonderful way to spend your life.. but do it for the love before a career... it's getting so unforgiving out there - I hate to think of the obstacles in the way now for new artists.. if you love it and you are good, you will be fine.. but be prepared to have to work hard and don't judge your success by other peoples opinions.. have self belief.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

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

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

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

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

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

Perhaps the greatest self-deceit is to tell ourselves that we can be self-sufficient.

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

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

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

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.

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

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

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

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

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

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

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

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.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

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.

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

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

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

Not exactly. I see a girl who wants to present someone special to the world. Someone beautiful. The pinnacle of beauty. But she has lost her hold on reality. Real beauty isn’t thin. It isn’t size two, unless you happen to be four foot ten. What the world sees when they look at you is someone who believes self-worth is all about how she looks, and that very often means that what she’s missing is love. Not someone else’s love. But love and respect for herself.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.