Top 1200 Self Reflection Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

My collections are a reflection of my personality, and the satisfaction I get from wearing my own designs is indescribable.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

The website is me. It's a reflection of my personality and my interests. It's the perfect marriage of my skills and experiences.

When you're trying to inspire individuals across the country, you have to have a reflection that people can see themselves in.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Baby Got Back' was already a reflection of what was going on. I didn't see it as this gigantic political statement.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

Your home is the truest and most honest reflection of who you are, where you've been, and where you want to go.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer - thought on thought - fused with imagination and emotion until they become like steel cables - unbreakable. Habits are attitudes which grow from cobwebs into cables that control your everyday life. Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self image and in you. Self-discipline achieves goals. Self discipline is not 'doing without,' it is 'doing within.'

Now I'm a little hurt. Let me check my tears in the reflection of my championship gold.

I've always believed that fashion is not just what you look like on the outside, it's a reflection of who you are on the inside.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection.

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

It's supposed to be fun. You should come to work every day and not have insecurities and not be self-conscious; just be your wonderful, perfect self.

Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of their own most intimate feelings, achieve what they deserve: not self-understanding but radical self-superficialization, not a discovered but a self-ascribed identity that explains nothing, reveals nothing, means nothing, and ultimately accomplishes nothing culturally or intellectually.

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 - how to express this - you really must make the self.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

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.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

There was a lot of reflection - I know that - wondering, 'What in the hell am I doing?' But it paid off.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

I went into the surgery room as my former self Neeru Bheda but came out as a new and improved version of my own self - Rakhi Sawant.