Quotes with self-insight

Quotes 681 till 700 of 710.

  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Eric Allenbaugh Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.
    Eric Allenbaugh
    American motivator
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  • Henry David Thoreau Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Gibbard You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Jo Coudert You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
    Jo Coudert
    American author
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  • Candace Bushnell You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Bill Keller You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Brian Tracy You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Ann Beattie You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Marsha Sinetar You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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  • Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Ben Carson You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bobby Darin You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • J. G. Gallimore Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns leads your life.
    J. G. Gallimore
    American author
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  • Bruce Barton [The] Great suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bhagavad Gita A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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