Top 1200 Self Restraint Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

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

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

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

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

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

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

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

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

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

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

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

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

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

I've learned that the Court will continue to change the meaning of the Constitution. Although all of the Justices have expressed the importance of judicial restraint, the Court inevitably makes new law every time it interprets the Constitution.

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

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

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

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

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

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

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.