Quotes 741 till 760 of 1083.
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
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The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
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The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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