Top 1200 Self Mastery Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

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

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.

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

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

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

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

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

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.

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

It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

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.

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

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.

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

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

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

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

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

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

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

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

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

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

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

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.

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.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

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