Quotes with self-pity

Quotes 661 till 680 of 754.

  • Benjamin Mkapa We could have waited for a donor to appear, but we believe in the spirit of self-development and confidence. We are not so poor that we are unable to carry out this project.
    On construction of the Unity Bridge, January 2005
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Naisbitt We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • May Sarton We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Gloria Steinem We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Swami Ramdas We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Grace Speare We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • John F. Kennedy We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Savage Landor We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Baba Kalyani We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Georges Bernanos What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 93.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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