Quotes with self-opinion

Quotes 421 till 440 of 940.

  • Bono Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • John Morley Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Brene Brown Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Adolf Galland Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • 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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  • William Somerset Maugham Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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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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  • Novalis My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Barry Diller My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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