Quotes with self-giving

Quotes 621 till 640 of 893.

  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Ellen Key The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Mikhail Baryshnikov The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
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  • James A. Froude The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • John Updike The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ben Shapiro The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Bob Riley The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Blake Mycoskie The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Rod Mckeun The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
    Rod Mckeun
     
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Carol Loomis The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose, is to teach college students - and anyone else who cares to register - how to beneficially contribute to charity. That's not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracian The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • David Sarnoff The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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