Quotes with self-defence

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  • André Maurois Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • John W. Gardner Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Self-plagiarism is style.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Marvell Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Patricia Sampson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
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  • Joan Didion Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • May Sarton Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Sir John Herschel Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Margaret Deland Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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  • W. Clement Stone Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Aeschylus Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Richard Cecil Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Wayne Dyer Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bliss Carman Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • George F. Will She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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