Self-controlling Quotes

#1. Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend. - Author: George A. Sheehan

#2. Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,
and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,
may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile
with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied
shall take a look at the world in broad daylight. - Author: Rabindranath Tagore

#3. Nothing can touch the one who is oodasin (one unperturbed by worldly life). After attaining Knowledge of the Self, if one applies awareness of the Self, one can remain unperturbed (oodasin). - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#4. And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate. - Author: Patrick Suskind

#5. Imponderable Sir, I presume from some if not all of your many reputations that you might prefer honest and convinced unbelief to the hypocritical and self-interested affectation of faith or the smoking tributes of bloody altars. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#6. Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence. - Author: Josef Pieper

#7. On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards. - Author: Freya Stark

#8. Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#9. The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. - Author: Andre Malraux

#10. Humankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalization. - Author: Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#11. Take Care of Yourself First- It's Easier to Serve Others That Way. - Author: Dashama Konah Gordon

#12. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel. - Author: Kate O'Mara

#13. This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#14. To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, he had learned not to share evidence of his oddities as a way to distinguish himself from others, although he was happy and proud that they shared theirs with him - Author: Hanya Yanagihara

#15. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too. - Author: Koren Zailckas

#16. Criticism is valuable ... and self-congratulatory experiences are not. - Author: Harold Prince

#17. Chase your dreams even with the last breath. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. The more you give, the less you need. - Author: Stephen Richards

#19. It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised. - Author: Anthony Daniels

#20. I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else. - Author: William Faulkner

#21. This watching through cool intent eyes and delicately adjusting one factor or another till a man's fundamental instinct for self-preservation cracks, is savagery in its most pure, most polished and most highly evolved form. - Author: Tana French

#22. your real self always attracts your real enemies and shows your real companions. - Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions. - Author: Stephen Richards

#24. We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it. - Author: Astro Teller

#25. The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. - Author: Louis Simpson

#26. Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering. - Author: Alan W. Watts

#27. I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead. - Author: Rachel Reiland

#28. If you have control over yourself, you have no desire to control others. - Author: Miya Yamanouchi

#29. Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is. - Author: Charles F. Glassman

#30. Emotional versatility is the art of making peace with the entire emotional spectrum by honing your capacity to channel various feelings along creative and constructive lines. It is not about controlling or condemning your feelings. It's about conducting your feelings in a self-edifying way. - Author: T.K. Coleman

#31. You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. - Author: Sam Harris

#32. In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?' - Author: D. A. Carson

#33. You are in control of your life, when you refuse to be provoke. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire. - Author: Christmas Humphreys

#35. Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living. - Author: Susie Orbach

#36. Managing stress is about controlling the way you respond to events and having an open mind about the things that stress you. Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give you peace and to help you with your problems - Author: Michele Woolley

#37. If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place. - Author: Albert Ellis

#38. We want to be clear: The skills we [teach] you for managing your emotions and controlling your urges to self-harm will never be quite as effective or satisfying as self-harm in the short run. - Author: Kim L. Gratz

#39. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. - Author: George Eliot

#40. Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self. - Author: Walter J Chantry

#41. Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity. - Author: Bradford Winters

#42. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. - Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#43. There is no such thing as phD in swag. Only uni. After learning the principles of swag, one must do their own individual trainibg to increase horizons of their 4 elements of swag. Then comes controlling the swag count that's is released from within. - Author: Batuhan Ibal

#44. Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. - Author: Dale Carnegie

#45. There is nothing more satisfying to me," he said, "than to create a complete self-contained world when a computer is controlling it. - Author: Michael Lewis

#46. Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only by being aware but also by controlling what is happening inside and around ourselves... - Author: Assegid Habtewold

#47. A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control. - Author: T.F. Hodge

#48. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours. - Author: Esther Dalseno

#49. No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex. - Author: Susan B. Anthony

#50. No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. - Author: G.K. Chesterton

#51. In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre. - Author: David Wenham

#52. I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don't need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me. - Author: Lev Grossman

#53. A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships. - Author: John Gray

#54. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed. - Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#55. An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery. - Author: Maria Montessori

#56. Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part. - Author: Gordon W. Allport

#57. Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Author: Shel Silverstein

#58. If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. - Author: Ann Oakley

#59. Why do you like me more when I was prouder and wilder, more full of words, yet emptier? - Author: Friedrich Holderlin

#60. To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that's a trophy enough for a guy's ego, huh? - Author: Jerry Spinelli

#61. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in. - Author: Bjork

#62. I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one. - Author: Kristen Stewart

#63. All you can be is you. Your true self shines with more beauty than your mind can ever know. - Author: Sasha Martin

#64. Are you willing to care enough to get hurt? - Author: Michele McKnight Baker

#65. I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own. - Author: Ani DiFranco

#66. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves. - Author: Nathaniel Branden

#67. Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#68. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. - Author: Anne Lamott

#69. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#70. Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them. - Author: Frederick Nymeyer

#71. Our goal is self-transcendence - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#72. Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with. - Author: Brad Thor

#73. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#74. Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions. - Author: Pema Chodron

#75. When we can overcome our own personal battles, we can live confidently in situations we would have otherwise been too weak to handle. - Author: Tanya R. Liverman

#76. Extroversion: response to reward Neuroticism: response to threat Conscientiousness: response to inhibition (self-control, planning) Agreeableness: regard for others Openness to experience: breadth of mental associations - Author: Gretchen Rubin

#77. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others. - Author: Toni Sorenson

#78. The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you ... If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you. - Author: Annie Besant

#79. You need to remember that. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you. - Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

#80. because then they don't have to struggle with the need to die to the ego-driven self and become a humble servant of all people, which is what Jesus requires. It's much - Author: Chuck Queen

#81. Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. - Author: Bryant H. McGill

#82. The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) - Author: Walter Scott

#83. Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. - Author: John Sterling

#84. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel. - Author: Ivar Giaever

#85. And there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor? - Author: Cary Grant

#86. I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do. - Author: Hannah Ware

#87. Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now. - Author: Auliq Ice

#88. Oh Lord, I've been so selfish, so consumed with myself I haven't been able to see anyone else's pain but my own. I've let anger blind me. I've let self-righteousness stop me in my tracks and keep me from having the kind of relationship with you that I want. I need to let it go. - Author: Lynette Eason

#89. You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good. - Author: Debi Mazar

#90. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility. - Author: M.E. Dahkid

#91. I gave a silent prayer of thanks that I didn't seem to be lousy. I had probably been too filthy for any self-respecting louse to take up residence. - Author: Patrick Rothfuss

#92. If you don't find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#93. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. - Author: Brian Tracy

#94. I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing. - Author: Sarah Dessen

#95. To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#96. The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility. - Author: Tyler Cowen

#97. Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#98. I regard myself as a religious ... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance. - Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

#99. Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news. - Author: Fulton J. Sheen

#100. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster