Top 1200 Self Mastery Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

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

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

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

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

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.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

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.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . .] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.

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

At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.

Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

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

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Play is your route to mastery.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

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

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

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

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

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

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

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

The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off 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.

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.

Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

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

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

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

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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

That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

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

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.