Quotes with self-destructive

Quotes 701 till 707 of 707.

• Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

  George Holbrook Jackson
  British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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• Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

  Robert Burns
  Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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• Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

  Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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• The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

  Charles Dickens
  English writer (1812 - 1870)
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• The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  French writer (1873 - 1954)
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• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-gratification
• self-explorer
• self-control
• self-denial
• immediately
• propensity

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