Quotes with self-understanding

Quotes 541 till 560 of 876.

  • George Bernard Shaw Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Margaret Deland Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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  • W. Clement Stone Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Aeschylus Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Richard Cecil Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Wayne Dyer Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bliss Carman Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Martin Luther King Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • George F. Will She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Eric Butterworth SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Alan Watts So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Some people dare not feel fully, all life must be a long self-repression.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Thomas Szasz Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Studs Terkel Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
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