Quotes with self-defense

Quotes 421 till 440 of 739.

  • Baruch Spinoza Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Aesop Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Phillips Brooks Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ian McEwan Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.
    Enduring Love (2010) 102
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • John Dryden Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Theodore Parker Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Oscar Wilde Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Herbert Marcuse Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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  • Napoleon Hill Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Isaac Asimov Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Eric Hoffer Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Albert Ellis Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Florence King Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Carlos Castaneda Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Bob Rae Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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