Top 1200 Self Praise Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

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

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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.

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

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

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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

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.

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.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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