Quotes with self-development

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  • George Edward Woodberry It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Voltaire It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Barry Gibb It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • George F. Will It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Terry Eagleton It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo It is well enough to say that we shall be consistent, but consistent with what?... The origins of the rule? The course and tendency of development? With logic or philosophy? With the fundamental conceptions of jurisprudence? All these loyalties are possible. All have sometimes prevailed.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Antonio Guterres It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights issues. The contribution of the United States for global affairs is absolutely crucial. And the cooperation with the U.N. is very important from our perspective.
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • W. H. Auden It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Anne Tyler It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ben Shapiro It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bill Rancic It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bell Hooks It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Josh Billings It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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