Top 1200 True Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like, our nationality, our country. But we're people from somewhere else; the true 'Americans' are the original peoples. It's funny, but we're a very territorial species.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics.

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

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

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

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

In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

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

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular.

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.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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