Quotes with self-respect

Quotes 881 till 900 of 939.

  • Alice Miller Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Lee Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Ann Coulter Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Harold Rosenberg Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Max Stirner Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anthony Collins Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt With self-discipline most anything is possible.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Confucius Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Vaclav Havel Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • George Gurdjieff Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Virginia Woolf Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • B. C. Forbes Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success – for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara de Angelis Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • James Baldwin Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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