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Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
Allport suggested that self-esteem can often be a goal in itself: "most people want to be higher on the status ladder than they are" (p. 371). However, self-enhancement can be based in avoidance as well as approach motives. Insecurity
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.
Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.
Self-righteousness is an especially heady condition that all of us have experienced at one time or another. Those who are honest will admit there is something sickly-sweet and alluring about knowing you are right, while others are terribly wrong.
There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.
Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
You don't have to justify yourself to me. You did what you did.
From self-boasting, and therefore his merit is acknowledged;
The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done ... But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
It's just easier to feel guilty than to admit that some things our out of our control.
Guilt is a self-indulgence.
We have two choices every day: We can feel good about ourselves, or we can feel lousy about ourselves. Why would anyone choose the latter?
A self excused is a self accused.
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.
Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression ...
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
Self-deception helps us deceive.
Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
I was raised with the idea that you can feel sorry for yourself, but then, get over it, because it doesn't get you anywhere. There was always this awareness that you have to be responsible for yourself in order to have what you want
If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.
Feeling good about ourselves is a choice. So is feeling guilty.
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack
Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.
We all do things we're not particularly proud of, because in the short term they make us feel the smallest bit better. Don't we?
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge.
We like to fool ourselves.
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Self importance is pride of a soul.
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our self-worth. As a consequence, we continually attempt to prove to ourselves and others that we are okay people, credible, trustworthy, and competent.
This is the art of rationalization, and we do it so often that some researchers believe that a majority of our time is spent rationalizing. That is, we go around much of the day lying to ourselves about why we are doing most of the things we do. When
The human psyche is a self-correcting mechanism.
Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.
I have a great deal of experience in justifying myself to myself.
and many people are ego-defensive, meaning they can't admit when they've done something wrong because it makes them feel bad about themselves. So I thought instead of emphasizing self-esteem,
If you have to justify an action, you probably shouldn't have done it in the first place.
Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
Why do you compare yourself to others?
We all have the need to feel special.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority.
Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
Self-seeking is self-destruction
Self-esteem is mostly self-delusion, but it serves a purpose. You are biologically driven to think highly of yourself in order to avoid stagnation. If you were to stop and truly examine your faults and failures, you would become paralyzed by fear and doubt.
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.
We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express ...
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.
It's far easier to judge others than to judge yourself.
Life is an addiction and self-preservation is its sweetest high
Self pride hinders the soul from flourishing,
How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?
Something deep inside each one of us seeks to prove we are good enough--to our parents, our friends, ourselves, God. We do this because we know deep down that we aren't good enough, and the illusion of feeling like good people feels better than the reality of knowing we are not.
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
It turns out that the more you repeat the same action, no matter how reprehensible, the more you can make an excuse for it in your own mind.
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.
Blaming others is excusing yourself.
Self-Evaluation is healthy and constructive. Denial and self-delusion is DESTRUCTIVE.
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.
Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.
The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.
Judging yourself is just as bad as judging someone else. Our thoughts are a powerful force, and what you pay attention to you empower. Judging yourself only serves to strengthen your shortcomings.
Most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.
There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more.
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
Self-realization is great.
It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.
Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.
Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?
Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.
You must live a life of self-consciousness always
For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.