Quotes with self-reflection

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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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  • Rupert Murdoch Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
    Rupert Murdoch
    Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931) (1931 - )
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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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  • Alban Berg Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
    Alban Berg
    Austrian composer (1885 - 1935)
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  • Bill Walton Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • W. H. Auden Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • George Orwell Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Eric Hoffer Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Millicent Fenwick Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Theodore Parker Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • C. Day Lewis No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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