Quotes with self-help

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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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  • 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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  • Bob Schaffer The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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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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  • 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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  • Aesop The gods help them that help themselves.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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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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  • Bono The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine The greatest service we can do for another is to help him to help himself.
    The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Trine
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thornton T. Munger The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • J. G. Ballard The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
    A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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