Quotes with self-restraint

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  • Camille Paglia Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bob Filner Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • A. W. Tozer Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Irving Layton Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Ben Shapiro Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Seneca Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Caroline Knapp Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Augustus William Hare Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Alice S. Rossi Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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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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