S Quotes
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“Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.”
“Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack information for regulating their effort, or are hindered by external factors from doing what they can”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.”
“Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.”
Source: You Can Heal Your Life Gift
“Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.”
Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons
“Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.”
Source: Aurora Floyd
“Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.”
“Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.”
“Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?”
“Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.”
“Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.”
Source: How to Wish
“Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.”
“Self-awareness includes awareness of your body.”
“Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.”
“Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.”
Source: First Things First
“Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery”
“Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.”
Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
“Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence”
“Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.”
“Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.”
“Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.”
Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time
“Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.”
Source: Earth
“Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.”
“Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.”
“Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.”
Source: What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul
“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”
“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.”
“Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.”
“Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.”
“Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.”
“Self-care is important for all of us, especially because we're in what amounts to a nationally traumatic phase. I think part of it is to remember that there is more to opposition than opposition. In other words, it's not just about recognizing and cataloguing and publicizing all the things that are going wrong; it's about modeling and celebrating the alternative.”
“Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.”
Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
“Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.”
“Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”
“Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.”
“Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.”
Source: Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition
“Self-care of all kinds is a huge part of my life. I really encourage other women and other people to really put self-care - and that includes the beauty regime, how you eat, all of that - into your body.”
“Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.”
“Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?”
“Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.”
“Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.”
“Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.”
“Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.”
“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”
“Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.”
“Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.”
“Self-certification may look like a small vision but there cannot be a greater decision for a Government to trust the honesty of the 1.25 billion people of the country.”
“Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.”