Top 1200 Self Reflection Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

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

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.