Top 1200 Self Responsibility Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

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

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

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

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

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

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

From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.

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

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

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

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

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

Being an actor/ writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to be cast into something and then you create the role. You almost have a voice inside of you telling you what you might want to play and be able to play. It's hard, but once that thing comes out of the printer and you hold those warm pages to your cheek it's great. It's a huge sense of accomplishment.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

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

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

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

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

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

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

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

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

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

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

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

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

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

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

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

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

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.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

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

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.