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self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.

Self-control is only courage under another form.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for what it is (raw and uncomfortable and saddening), when I refuse to sugar-coat self criticism, judgment, agitation, and constantly trying to improve myself, then I'm one quantum leap closer to freedom.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

Self-defense is so important to know in today's society. It's not just that you might get mugged. It's more for confidence. It's the way you hold yourself when you walk into a room. Every step you take is more sure and you're much more aware of your surroundings. So, I think it's a really important thing - especially for women.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty, the need for variety, the need for significance, and the need for connection. But, ultimately, we must grow, and we must contribute in a meaningful way in order to feel fulfilled.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with your buddies, you didn't go after the girls, you stayed in your own little geeky room or you wrote for hours.

Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

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.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind.

Self-analysis always cheats.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

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.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

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.

Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.

Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

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.

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.