Top 1200 Self-Worth Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.

Heaven has no place for the erroneous belief that Christ died because we are worth it. Christ's death in our place had nothing to do with our worth but with the depths of our sin, the demands made by God's justice, and His eternal glory.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

I woke up this morning and I said to my self, 'Self, I think we need to party today'.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. ... A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you, if you care to enter it, always supporting your movements, although you may be unaware of it. It is perhaps more correct to say that the Self is the Heart. Really the Self is the centre and is everywhere aware of itself as the Heart or Self-awareness.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

There are two persons in the world we never see as they are,--one's self and one's other self.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Every act of self control leads to a sense of self-respect.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain choices in your life. Maybe you can reach to that self and borrow gifts and lessons from that self and maybe even help them on their road.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.