Top 1200 Self Restraint Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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.

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.

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.

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.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

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

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.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

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.

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.

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

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.

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.

We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America, and not become bogged down in unwinnable conflicts that lead to greater resentment of the United States, and that don't advance American interests.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

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

'The Restraint of Beasts' is a painful subject. We'd shot 60% of the film when I had to stop. The material looks great, like nothing I've ever done or even seen before. It could have been really great, definitely original.

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.

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

When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint.

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

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.

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.

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

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

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

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

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

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

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

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

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

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

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

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

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.

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

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

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

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

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

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.

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

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

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