Quotes with self-aggrandizement

Quotes 401 till 420 of 677.

  • Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Charles Buxton Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Sally Kempton Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
    Sally Kempton
    American yoga teacher and author (1943 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Lord George Byron Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Karl Menninger Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
    Karl Menninger
    American psychiatrist ( - 1990)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Anthony Powell Self-love seems so often unrequited.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • William Shakespeare Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • André Maurois Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • John W. Gardner Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Self-plagiarism is style.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Marvell Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Patricia Sampson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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  • Joan Didion Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • May Sarton Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Sir John Herschel Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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