Top 1200 Self-Preservation Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s the exact opposite—you’re the self to you and I’m the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally.” “I still don’t get it, but it sure feels good.” “That’s the whole idea,” the girl said.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of ... the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and ernter into another.... Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?

The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation.

When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Thermonuclear fusion is an absolute requirement, for the preservation of the human species.