Quotes with self-giving

Quotes 341 till 360 of 893.

  • Emma Goldman In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Paul Klee In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bhagat Singh In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Sheldon Kopp In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Myriam Miedzian In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Cate Blanchett Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Aaron Copland Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • John Sterling Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Brian Tracy Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Renata Adler It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
    Renata Adler
    American author, journalist, and film (1937 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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