Quotes 581 till 600 of 874.
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Pensees -
The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
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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.
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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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.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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