Quotes with self-approval

Quotes 501 till 520 of 703.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thornton T. Munger The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • J. G. Ballard The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
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    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Caroline Knapp The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Denis Waitley The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • George S. Patton The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Nachmanovitch The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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  • Francis H. Bradley The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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