Quotes with self-defence

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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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  • 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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  • Bum Phillips The only discipline that last is self discipline.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Annie Dillard The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Confucius The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Brian Tracy The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Carroll Quigley The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • David Lee Roth The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
    David Lee Roth
    American singer (1954 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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