Quotes with self-important

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  • Oscar Wilde There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Grover Cleveland There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • John Gay There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Calvin Coolidge There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Ward There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Byron Dorgan There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • George Shinn There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
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  • Toni Morrison There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barbra Streisand There is nothing more important in life than love.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Leo Tolstoy There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Erica Jong There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Carrie Fisher There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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