Quotes with self-aggrandizement

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Maxwell Maltz One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Sam Walton Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Barry Eisler Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Patience means self-suffering.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Robert Redford People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • James Baldwin People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. M. Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bell Hooks People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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