Top 1200 Self-Made Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

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

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

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

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

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

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

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

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

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

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

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

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

My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

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

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

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

The self doubt can be a fantastic opportunity to self-reflect and see where you can grow and be stronger.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

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

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

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

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

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

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

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

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

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

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

That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.

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

If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

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

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

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

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

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

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

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

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

This is how God made me. You are how God made you. All God's chillun are made how God made 'em. You think God made a mistake, take it up with Him.

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

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