Quotes with self-possession

Quotes 641 till 660 of 749.

  • Alexander Pope True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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  • Alexander Pope Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Jesse Owens We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • James Thurber We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Albert Einstein We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Cyril Connolly We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Carl Paladino We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Peter Stephen Paul Brook We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him, if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.
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  • Bob Graham We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Carl Sagan We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • William Hazlitt We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • 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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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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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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  • 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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