Quotes with (self-development)

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  • Napoleon The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • William Gilmore Simms The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Brene Brown The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Benazir Bhutto The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Carl Sagan The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • E. B. White The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Joan Didion The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Sterling The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
    Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Anna Lindh The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sagan There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Dorothea Brande There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lord Acton There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Francis Bacon There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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