Quotes 61 till 80 of 787.
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A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
U.S. News & World Report, Volume 136, Issues 20-23, 2004 -
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.
Rolling Stone Magazine, 16-04-1992 -
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
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