Quotes with self-interest

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  • Maxwell Maltz Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Sam Walton Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Billy Graham Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Barry Eisler Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of children.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Patience means self-suffering.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bill Buford People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Robert Redford People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • James Baldwin People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. M. Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bell Hooks People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • John Updike Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, no epoch was more naturally mad.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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