Top 1200 Self Motivation Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

When you look at what a coach does, it is leadership, it is communication, it is teaching, it is motivation. It really comes down to those four things.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

It's supposed to be fun. You should come to work every day and not have insecurities and not be self-conscious; just be your wonderful, perfect self.

Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.

A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

I think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation.

You can photograph anything. You can be inside, outside, doesn't matter, you're controlling the light. It gives you great flexibility. That was a primary motivation.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Shoot, if you need any added motivation, the first thing is you have to be a pro to play this game and finish it right.

No matter how many years you have been dancing, I feel a guru is always needed for motivation and inspiration.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

I now recognize that having a great company behind you can actually impact your motivation to be more creative.

Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

Motion Before Motivation: It means you get started FIRST, then FEEL the Inspiration to keep going.

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time.

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.