Quotes with self-destructive

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  • John S. Bonnell No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • George Bernard Shaw No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Peace Pilgrim No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Robert Wilson No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Susan B. Anthony No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Brene Brown Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Demosthenes Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Albert Einstein Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • John Milton Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • François Fénelon Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Marilyn Ferguson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Brandon Sanderson Of course not, she agreed, You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
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    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Bo Burnham Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Arthur Ashe One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation
    Arthur Ashe
    Robert Ashe Jr (1943 - 1993)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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