Quotes with self-giving

Quotes 41 till 60 of 893.

  • Kate Millet Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Addison Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Voltaire Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • John Madden Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sam Levenson Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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  • Joseph Addison True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Alexander Cockburn A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Bernard Berenson A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Charles Dickens A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bob Harrington A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
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