Quotes with self-important

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  • Karl Albrecht The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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    +9
  • Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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    +8
  • Vaclav Havel A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Les Brown Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • André Maurois Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Victor Hugo A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Charles Swindoll Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Karl Menninger Attitudes are more important than facts.
    Karl Menninger
    American psychiatrist ( - 1990)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre It is only in our decisions that we are important.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • George Eliot It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aldous Huxley Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Addison Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joan Didion The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Joseph Addison True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • E. M. Cioran A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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