Top 1200 Self-Made Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The media is biased against me because I'm a self-made woman.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you.... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word

I'm a self-made man since I left college at the age of 18.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells.

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

We're all self-made, but only successful people admit it.

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man.' It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous.

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

I have worked for everything. I am self-made and proud of it.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called the path of self-disillusion the via dolorosa or "highway of despair," in Baillie's fine and florid rendering, like Jesus' route to Golgotha).

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.

At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and when we disregard, disrespect, or damage any part of it, we do violence against creation.

Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.