Quotes with self-sacrifices

Quotes 101 till 120 of 700.

  • Plotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Aldous Huxley Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brendon Burchard Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Arthur Henderson But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Grenville Kleiser By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Caroline Knapp By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Dan Cruickshank By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.
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  • Jackie Mason By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Channing Pollock Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Audre Lorde Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
    A Burst of Light: And Other Essays (2017)
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Camille Paglia Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Al Goldstein Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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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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