Quotes with self-taught

Quotes 801 till 820 of 845.

  • Virginia Woolf Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
    - +
     0
  • B. C. Forbes Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success – for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
    - +
     0
  • Camille Paglia Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
    - +
     0
  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara de Angelis Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
    - +
     0
  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
    - +
     0
  • Eric Allenbaugh Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.
    Eric Allenbaugh
    American motivator
    - +
     0
  • Henry David Thoreau Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
    - +
     0
  • Homer Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Gibbard You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
    - +
     0
  • Jo Coudert You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
    Jo Coudert
    American author
    - +
     0
  • Candace Bushnell You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Keller You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Brian Tracy You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ann Beattie You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Bennett You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
    - +
     0
All self-taught famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 41)