Top 1200 Self-Preservation Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

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

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

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

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

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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.

In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular shape of such and such an animal, but the general procedures of nature in the animal's production and preservation.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

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

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

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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

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.

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

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

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

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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

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

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

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

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 knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

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.

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

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

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

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

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

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.

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