Top 1200 Self-Taught Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

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

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

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 self cannot be self without other selves.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.

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

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

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 a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

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.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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.

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

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.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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

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

How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?

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.

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

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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.