Top 1200 Self-Serving Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

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.

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

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

Veterans are determined to continue serving here at home, and given a level playing field, they will compete with anyone.

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.

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

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.

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

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 perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

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

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

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

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.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

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.

Most Americans don't shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles - that's the Left.

I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-earth orbit activity.

I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.

There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

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

My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.

Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

Venting your anger on anyone - especially complete strangers - is not a winning tactic. Be especially sweet to bartenders and people serving you food.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.

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

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

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.

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.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

Serving the people of Arkansas' 2nd District is the honor of a lifetime, and I'm grateful for the opportunity I have been given by my fellow Arkansans.

The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

I am proud of all Army personnel serving in Siachen who are leaving no stone unturned to defend our motherland.

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

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.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

I'm very proud and happy to be serving the people of Arkansas and the Senate, and I look forward to continue to serve them.

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

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.

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

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

Just for me, my leadership revolves around serving people. It's the way I thought would be effective for my personality.

I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent narrative.

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

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.

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