Top 1200 Strong Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

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

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

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

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

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.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

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

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

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

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

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

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

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

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

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

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

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

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

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.