Top 1200 Self-Sacrifice Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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.

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

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

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.

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

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

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

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

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

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

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

And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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.

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

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.

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

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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

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.

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

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 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.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

The self cannot be self without other selves.