Quotes with self-criticism

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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bill Clinton A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
    U.S. News & World Report, Volume 136, Issues 20-23, 2004
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Anita Brookner A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • William Cowper A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Eric Hoffer A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Kurt Cobain All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.
    Rolling Stone Magazine, 16-04-1992
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Andrew Carnegie All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Baltasar Garzon All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.
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