Top 1200 Self Praise Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

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

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.

Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise.

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

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.

Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?

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.

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.

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.

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

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.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.

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

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

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.

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

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

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

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.

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.

No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.

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

Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

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.

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

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

The most powerful predictable people builders are praise and encouragement.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

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

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.

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

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.

Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

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.

God, despite my circumstances, I will find reasons to praise You.

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

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

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

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

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

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

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

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.