Top 1200 Self Service Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

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.

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

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.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

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

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

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

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

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

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

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.

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.

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.

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

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

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

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

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

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

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

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

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.

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

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

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

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