Quotes with self-possession

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  • Bobby Davro Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Abdul Kalam Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Cass Sunstein Donald Trump may not speak explicitly of 'who we are,' but with his promise to make America great again, he engages in his own kind of identity politics, signaling that the nation has lost its sense of self. That gets to people.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Donald Trump Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self.
    Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life (2010) 44
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Blaise Pascal Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way—(1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ben Parr Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • W. H. Auden Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • John Ruskin Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Ruth Hubbard Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
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  • Ben Harper Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
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    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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