Top 1200 Self-Made Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

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.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.

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.

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

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

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

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

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

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

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

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

When you promise yourself something, make a commitment, you can't give up. Because, when you're in the gym, you have to fulfill the promise you made to yourself. The people who can self motivate - in any field - are usually the ones who win. Regardless of talent.

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

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

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

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

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

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

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

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

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

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

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.

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