Quotes with self-criticism

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  • Samuel Johnson There is always an appeal open from criticism to nature.
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    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francis Bacon There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Anne Stevenson There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Ben Hecht There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bernard Malamud There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Grover Cleveland There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • John Gay There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Shinn There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
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  • Toni Morrison There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aldous Huxley There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is the silent criticism of silence, worth all the rest.
    Friends in Council II, ch. 2
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Sir Walter Scott There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Carrie Fisher There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Seneca There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude - confidence in self.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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