Top 1200 Self Questioning Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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

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.

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 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 self cannot be self without other selves.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

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.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

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.

Any time you find yourself doing something out of obligation, that's a time you should start questioning whether you're spending your time wisely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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