Top 1200 Self-Serving Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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

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.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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

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

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

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

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

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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

CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.

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

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

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

All I'm really interested in musically is trying to make concept albums. Serving a larger sum than the parts.

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

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

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.

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.

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

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

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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

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

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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.

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.

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-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.

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