Quotes with self-laudation

Quotes 301 till 320 of 677.

  • P. J. O'Rourke Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Walter Russell Mediocrity is self-inflicted and genius is self-bestowed.
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  • Wayne Dyer Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Dave Barry Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Napoleon Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Faith Baldwin Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
    Faith Baldwin
    American author of romance and fiction (1893 - 1978)
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  • Vince Lombardi Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Millicent Fenwick Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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