Quotes with self-serving

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  • Theodore Parker Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Oscar Wilde Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Herbert Marcuse Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.
    Herbert Marcuse
    German political philosopher (1898 - 1979)
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  • Napoleon Hill Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Isaac Asimov Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Eric Hoffer Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Albert Ellis Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Florence King Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Carlos Castaneda Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Bob Rae Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.
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    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Charles Buxton Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Sally Kempton Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
    Sally Kempton
    American yoga teacher and author (1943 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Lord George Byron Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Karl Menninger Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
    Karl Menninger
    American psychiatrist ( - 1990)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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