Quotes 581 till 600 of 822.
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The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
The quotable Billy Graham (1966) -
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
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The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996) -
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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