Top 1200 Self-Made Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

I grew up in an extremely musical atmosphere. There was a lot of music and singing around. I never really thought about one not singing, as a person. I've always sung and made music, it was just self-understood.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.