Quotes with self-aggrandizement

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  • Abu Sa'id To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Bell Hooks To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Denis Waitley To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Abu Bakr To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Antoine Rivarol To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Madame Neckar To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Nathaniel Branden To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Publilius Syrus To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carlo Ratti Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Alexander Pope True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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