Top 1200 Self Will Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

I will a hundred percent sell out. Because I'll always be myself... my raw, authentic self.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don't have a job you have to rely on someone.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

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

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and the destruction of everyone who loves you. And a great many will love you for your beautiful face for your seductive body; but you will fail them all because you will believe they all fail you first. You are an idealist of the worst kind - the romantic idealist. Born to destroy and self destruct.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy...As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

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. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

The world is going to go self-driving and autonomous. Because a million fewer people are going to die a year. Traffic in all cities will be gone. Significantly reduced pollution and trillions of hours will be given back to people - quality of life goes way up.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.