Top 1200 Self Mastery Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

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

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.

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

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

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise. "But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

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