Quotes with themselves

Quotes 441 till 460 of 655.

  • André Malraux The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bayard Rustin The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Walt Whitman The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best reformers the world has ever seen
    are those who commence on themselves.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Grosz The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Wayne Dyer The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Auberon Herbert The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Leon Trotsky The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • D'Alembert The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
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  • Brendan Behan The English and Americans dislike only some Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • John Berger The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • David Seabury The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aesop The gods help them that help themselves.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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