Quotes with self-image

Quotes 501 till 520 of 806.

  • Christian Nevell Bovee Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bliss Carman Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • George F. Will She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Desmond Tutu Show me where Christ said "Love thy fellow man, except for the gay ones." Gay people, too, are made in my God's image. I would never worship a homophobic God.
    Washington Post, 12 March 2010
    Desmond Tutu
    South African cleric and human rights activist (1931 - 2021)
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  • Eric Butterworth SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Alan Watts So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Some people dare not feel fully, all life must be a long self-repression.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Thomas Szasz Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Studs Terkel Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
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  • Armstrong Williams Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • George Eliot Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Edward Gibbon Style is the image of character.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • William James Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • James Russell Lowell Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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