Quotes with self-important

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  • Dale Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • T. S. Eliot Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Brett Hoebel My approach to training changed dramatically throughout my experience as one of the trainers on 'The Biggest Loser.' Getting to know each person was an important reminder that to get the body physically fit, you must first get mentally and emotionally 'fit.'
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Bobbi Brown My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open, because you never know what's going to come your way.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Bruce Forsyth My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Adam Duritz My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
    Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Andrei Sakharov My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Muhammad Ali My principles are more important than the money or my title.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Bill Halter My wife Shanti and I are blessed with two wonderful daughters. Nothing is more important to us than protecting their future and the future of every Arkansas child.
    Bill Halter
    American politician (1960 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Buzz Aldrin NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • George Orwell Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bobby Darin Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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