Quotes with self-contempt

Quotes 701 till 720 of 731.

  • Bodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Eric Allenbaugh Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.
    Eric Allenbaugh
    American motivator
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  • Henry David Thoreau Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Gibbard You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Jo Coudert You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
    Jo Coudert
    American author
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  • Candace Bushnell You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Bill Keller You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Brian Tracy You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Ann Beattie You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Marsha Sinetar You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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  • Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Ben Carson You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Lord Melbourne You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Bobby Darin You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • J. G. Gallimore Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns leads your life.
    J. G. Gallimore
    American author
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  • Bruce Barton [The] Great suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bhagavad Gita A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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