Top 1200 Self Will Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

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.

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

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.

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

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

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

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

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

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

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

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

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

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

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

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

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

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

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

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

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

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

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

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

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

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

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

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

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

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

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

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

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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

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