Quotes with self-destroying

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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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  • Barbara Deming The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bert Lance The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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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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  • Michelangelo The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Edward Dahlberg The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • John Dewey The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Bre Pettis The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Eric Hoffer The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Milan Kundera The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Iris Murdoch The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Albert Pike The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Antoine Fuqua The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 234
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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