Quotes with self-activity

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  • Brendan Francis At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Alexander McQueen British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
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  • Frank Moore Colby By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Ann Landers Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bruce Lee Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • John Burroughs For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Leigh Hunt Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Charles Lamb How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Aristotle If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Lord George Byron If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
    Source: Character Ch. VI
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Tryon Edwards Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Our first and last love is... self-love.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Adel Bestavros Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
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  • Kate Millet Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Addison Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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