Quotes 761 till 780 of 795.
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You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
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[Suggested epitaph for himself:] He was an average guy who could carry a tune.
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A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
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A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
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He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
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