Quotes with self-sacrificing

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  • Marsha Sinetar You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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  • Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Ben Carson You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bobby Darin You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • J. G. Gallimore Your self image is your pattern!. Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns leads your life.
    J. G. Gallimore
    American author
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  • Bruce Barton [The] Great suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bhagavad Gita A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Robert Burns Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Elias Canetti The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Charles Dickens The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Helen Keller True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy cause.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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