Top 1200 Self Ownership Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The self cannot be self without other selves.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

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.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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

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

I used to think, 'Oh, I can fix him. I can be his therapist. I can be what he needs.' But what I've learned is that you can't take ownership for how they're feeling, no matter how badly you want to.

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 improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

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

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

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.

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

When you say 'follow me on Twitter,' and you get 10 million people to follow you - you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

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

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

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

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

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

We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.

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.

Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process: editors, PR people.

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.

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

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

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

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

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

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

One of the reasons that Thatcher promoted home ownership is that it promoted responsible citizens with a stake in society. But another reason was that those people would tend to be Conservative.

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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

The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

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

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

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.