Top 1200 Self-Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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

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

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.

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

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

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

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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

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

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

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

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

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

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

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

Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.

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

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

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

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

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

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.

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

Being diagnosed with cancer helped me identify all that was wrong in my life. It also helped me search for the solutions. I discovered self-love; I learned to prioritise myself over others and, most importantly, realised that I had to love myself first before somebody else loves me.

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

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

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

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

I profess the religion of love, Love is my religion and my faith. My mother is love My father is love My prophet is love My God is love I am a child of love I have come only to speak of love.

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

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

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

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

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

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

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

always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.

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.

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

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

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

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