Top 1200 Self Mastery Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

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

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

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

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

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

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

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.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

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

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

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

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.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

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

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

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

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

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.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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

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.

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.

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

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

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

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

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.

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

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

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.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.