Quotes with self-transformation

Quotes 541 till 560 of 696.

  • Benazir Bhutto The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Carl Sagan The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • I Ching The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • E. B. White The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Joan Didion The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Sterling The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
    Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sagan There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Dorothea Brande There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Francis Bacon There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ben Hecht There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bernard Malamud There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Grover Cleveland There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • John Gay There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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