Quotes with self-serving

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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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  • Edmund Burke Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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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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  • Brad Schneider If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
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  • Bryan Fuller If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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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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  • Bill Haslam Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Denis Diderot The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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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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