Quotes with self-important

Quotes 861 till 880 of 1435.

  • George Bernard Shaw Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Margaret Deland Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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  • W. Clement Stone Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Aeschylus Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Richard Cecil Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Wayne Dyer Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • 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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  • Ian Dury Sex is about as important as a cheese sandwich. But a cheese sandwich, if you ain't got one to put in your belly, is extremely important.
    Ian Dury
    British singer and bandleader (1942 - 2000)
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  • Alex Trebek Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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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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  • Banksy Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Bo Bennett Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • André Dubus Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
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  • Eric Butterworth SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Bill Kristol Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Smoking... kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.
    Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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