Best self & order Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.”

Men Self Helping Body Mother Order Passion Loses Prayer Love Is Self Love Pure Driving God Love Rejects Attachment Irritation Rancor

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord-it feels great-but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

Feels Self Feelings Hate Order Bits Learning Humility Taught Self Improvement Determination Improvement Barriers Accord Inferiority

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.”

Way Want Writing Self States Order Situation Poverty Constant

Author:Tom Waits

“The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you’ve impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your “feeling.””

Thinking Mind Self Feelings Dream Order Emotion Self Esteem Judging Ego Essentials Mercy Intellect Supreme Esteem Betrayed Reliance Inarticulate Tribunals

Author:John Galt

“Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.”

Knows Self Order Parent Secret

Author:Ellen Sussman

“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.”

“Start taking your SELF to the next level so you can take your SUCCESS to the next level. It only happens in that order.”

Inspirational Self Happens Order Next Levels Next Level

Author:Hal Elrod

“Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.”

May Self Order Vision Fine Vehicle Sensitivity Receptivity

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.”

Self Order Jesus Speak Lord Position Listening Judgment Weakness Righteousness Reserves Again And Again Self Righteousness

Author:Pope Francis

“On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work.”

Ifs Wells May Self Order Morning Clear Fields Scientist Affair Satisfaction Make Sense Fallen Skepticism Roof Good Work Back Again Tuesday Self-satisfaction Tuesday Morning

Author:Lewis Thomas

“I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.”

Self States Law Order Violence Citizens Prove Western Defense Accepted Unwilling Self Defense Ku Klux Klan

Author:Robert F. Williams

“Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.”

Ifs Humans Self Order Justice Moral Demand Righteousness Constructs Precarious Self Righteousness Guillotine

Book:Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

“Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.”

Self Order Discipline Authority Highest Relation Institutions Foundation Individuality Self Confidence Supreme Individualism Submission Inseparable Charismatic

Author:Philip Rieff

“There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.”

Wells Mean War Self Action Form Order Social Duty International Chosen Symbols Fascism Righteous Brutality Blackness Without Hope Self Righteous Tubs Smartness Tinkering

Author:E. M. Forster

“In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.”

Two Self Order Arms Discipline Majors Boss Self Discipline Arsenal Good Writers Stamina

Author:Leon Uris

“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.”

“Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.”

Men Self States Order Optimism Satisfaction Pity Misfortunes Anxious Optimist Cunning Cover Ups Self-satisfaction

Book:A diary of my times

Source: A diary of my times

“Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.”

“As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.”

Stills Self Order Understood Stones Importance Wide Forests Branches Comment Mike Conceit Owl Scribbles Secluded

Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.”

Way Self Song Order Language Sound Music Heard Creatures Capable Conscious Self Conscious Nightingales

Book:Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

Source: Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

“There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.”

“Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.”

Way Self Helping Order Consciousness Special Higher Illusion Garden Currents Mammals Slugs Slime

Book:The Perseids and Other Stories

Source: The Perseids and Other Stories

“There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without stability and order.”

Self Government Order Liberty Morality Goods Stability Self-government Constitutionalism

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness.”

Ifs World Self Facts Wanted Order Loses Results Century Intellectual Madness Mad Elites Utopia Saviour Obsolete World Order

Author:Gao Xingjian

“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.”

Mind Self Feelings Order Culture Voice Loss Stage Creation Divine Products Return Truth Is Conscious Direct Absolutes Responsible Debate Judgement Reverse Inward Machinery Germs Prerequisites

Author:Julian Jaynes

“One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.”

“I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Action Order Turns Force Wish Responsibility Hell Path Praying Higher Shadow Crosses Destruction Ultimate Know Yourself I Pray Radiant Descent Higher Self Rebuilding

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.”

Giving Self States Order Christ Moral Enemy Bears Independence Affair Self Respect Contempt Tolerate Emperor

Author:John Carroll

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”

Firsts Self Order Pleasure Virtue Mankind Degrees Destruction Aesthetic Alienation

Author:Jerry Mander

“In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.”

People Men Self Order Education Study Self Improvement Sake Improvement Impress Old Days

Book:A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects

Source: A book of heaven and the earth: stories from the Confucian analects

“For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more”

Years Littles Real Self Might Order Fashion Eternity Liberation Finding Yourself Samadhi Real Self New Self

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.”

“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.”

“The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.”

“Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.”

Needs Persons Self Order Duty Calling

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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