Top 1200 Self-Made Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

'The Newton Boys' was the one time I've made a film with really active characters who weren't at all self-reflexive and just plowed through their lives. There's a part of everyone that's like that. We have a biological imperative to keep living, keep moving forward... We have no choice.

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

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.

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.

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

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

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

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

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

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

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

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

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.

When I walked outside of my room for the first time since being placed into self-isolation for breaking the Covid-19 protocols, I heard the cameras clicking with every single step I took. The whole spectacle made me feel uneasy.

Kate Middleton has no blue blood coursing through her veins. Her father, Michael, is self-made, and he and his wife have been very successful with their party business, but they are and always will be strictly middle class.

Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

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

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-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

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

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.

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

When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine 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 .

Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty and giving them a sense of dignity, self-worth and confidence.

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

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

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

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

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

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.