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 | "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he
always has good company." | |
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Charles Evans Hughes
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| "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." | |
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Proverb
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| "All censure of a man"s self is oblique praise. It is in order to
show how much he can spare." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "All of the significant battles are waged within the self." | |
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Sheldon Kopp
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| "Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is
bound to end in disaster." | |
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Robert M. Pirsig
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| "Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend
on yourself." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to
talk too much about yourself." | |
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Mortimer Jerome Adler
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| "Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself." | |
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Joseph Joubert
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| "Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Be what you would seem to be ? or, if you"d like it put more simply
? Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to
others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what
you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." | |
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Lewis Carroll
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| "Become addicted to constant and never-ending self
improvement." | |
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| "Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give, I
give myself." | |
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Walt Whitman
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| "By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in
whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility,
self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my
actions?" | |
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Jackie Mason
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| "Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds
his identity by identifying. A man"s identity is not best thought of as the
way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is
united with them." | |
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Robert Terwilliger
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| "Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for
others." | |
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Spinoza
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| "Don"t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any
happiness you get you"ve got to make yourself." | |
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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| "Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and
you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own
voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see
forever." | |
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Nancy Kerrigan
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| "Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He
devises his own future, and he inherits his own past." | |
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Frederick Henry Hedge
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| "Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of
himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he
can use." | |
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Peter Mere Latham
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| "Give him enough rope and he will hang himself." | |
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Charlotte Brontë
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| "Happy is he who can give himself up." | |
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Naguib Mahfouz
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| "He can who thinks he can." | |
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Heber J. Grant
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| "He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at
her." | |
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The Bible
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| "He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of
himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men"s
heads." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of
mail that none can pierce." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is
enlightened." | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she
wants, rather than to create it herself." | |
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Anaïs Nin
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| "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes
his enemies." | |
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Aristotle
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| "I laugh, my voice spiralling into Forever for I have found
perfection and it has always been right here in the temple of Self." | |
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Miranda Padgett
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| "I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am
with you, Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for what You
are making of me. I love you For the part of me That you bring out; I love
you For putting your hand Into my heaped-up heart And passing over All the
foolish, weak things That you can?t help Dimly seeing there, And for
drawing out Into the light All the beautiful belongings That no one else
had looked Quite far enough to find. I love you because you Are helping me
to make Of the lumber of my life Not a tavern But a temple; Out of the
works Of my every day Not a reproach But a song." | |
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Cecelia Reed
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| "I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater
part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not
sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a
tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary
to erect a hut." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else
whom I knew as well." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when
you don?t have to think." | |
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David Oman McKay
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| "If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself,
what am I? If not now, when?" | |
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Rabbi Hillel
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| "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the
race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have
started." | |
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Marcus Garvey
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| "Insist on yourself; never imitate." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that
you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as
important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost
..." | |
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Richard David Bach
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| "It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do
yourself." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the
baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own
interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their
self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their
advantages." | |
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Adam Smith
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| "It is terrible to destroy a person"s picture of himself in the
interests of truth or some other abstraction." | |
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Doris Lessing
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| "Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement,
announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from
within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last
thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to
embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to
yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your
mind." | |
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Grenville Kleiser
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| "Let him that would move the world, first move himself." | |
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Socrates
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| "Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph
or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It
has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the
same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and
from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see
them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why
they say what they say." | |
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Richard L. Evans
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| "Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. All things are bound
together. All things connect." | |
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Chief Seattle
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| "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a
mask, and he will tell you the truth." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself." | |
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Epictetus
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| "Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive
ourselves." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I
am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a
bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect." | |
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Theodore Parker
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| "No man is free who cannot command himself." | |
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Pythagoras
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| "No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated
himself." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself." | |
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Greville
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| "Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that
he also believes to be true." | |
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Demosthenes
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| "Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put
something." | |
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Sue S. Taylor
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| "Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman"s
garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than
this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and
that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own,
will be the last to die." | |
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Susan Brownell Anthony
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| "Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival
tool." | |
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Jane Wagner
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| "Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own
hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall
be so, it will be so." | |
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Martin Delany
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| "People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.
But the self is not something one finds, it is something one
creates." | |
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Thomas Szasz
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| "Presume not in prosperity, neither despair in adversity: court not
dangers, nor meanly fly from before them: dare to despise whatever will
not remain with thee." | |
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Akhenaton
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| "Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom"s root." | |
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Robert Burns
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| "Self reverence, self-knowledge, self control. These three alone lead
life to sovereign power." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy." | |
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Gloria Steinem
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| "SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one"s self and to nobody else." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only
begins for man with self-surrender." | |
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
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| "Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only
when it hardens does it become uncomfortable." | |
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Maya Angelou
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| "Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do
anything wise in the world." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "Self-repect ?The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is
suspicious." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life." | |
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Joe Clark
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| "Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It"s a
spiritual dissipation." | |
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Margaret Deland
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| "Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy
conviction that they are not as other men." | |
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Margery Allingham
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| "Something we were withholding made us weak Until we found that it
was ourselves." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal
oneself." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival
tool." | |
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Lily Tomlin
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| "The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by
sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "The longest journey of any person is the journey inward." | |
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Dag Hammarskjöld
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| "The major way of doing anything with one"s self is to own one"s
self. This means to take full responsibility and accountability for
whatever I am doing at any moment, with anybody. It means, among other
things, that I get rid of all the extra fingers that I point at people and
situations to explain my behavior. When a person says "He made me mad" that
is not accurate. It is "I made me mad." When I permit myself the luxury of
taking that full responsibility, then I"m on first base, at least, because
then I can do something about it." | |
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W. W. Broadbent, MD, PhD
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| "The man who knows his worth respects his fellow man because he
respects himself first. He does not boast; is not self-seeking; nor does
he force his personal opinion on others." | |
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Harry M. Banfield
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| "The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable
advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and
learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the
highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach
man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. " | |
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Pierre Charron
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| "The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be
devoured." | |
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Konrad Adenauer
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| "The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself." | |
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Anna Brownell Jameson
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| "The supreme Self is neither born nor dies. He cannot be burned,
moved, pierced, cut, nor dried. Beyond all attributes, the supreme Self is
the eternal witness, ever pure, indivisible, and uncompounded, far beyond
the senses and the ego.... He is omnipresent, beyond all thought, without
action in the external world, without action in the internal world.
Detached from the outer and the inner, This supreme Self purifies the
impure." | |
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Unknown
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| "The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who
know this can never know defeat." | |
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A. J. Cronin
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| "There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle? Know
thyself and Nothing too much; and upon these all other precepts
depend." | |
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Plutarch
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| "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving and that is your own self." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little
flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem
established there already." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an
unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief,
it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is
the reward of self-esteem." | |
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Nathaniel Branden
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| "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than
you are willing to believe." | |
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Claudia Black
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| "Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every
friend and every foe." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to
live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny,
inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." | |
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Foster C. McClellan
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| "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." | |
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Dr. Benjamin Spock
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| "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own
teeth." | |
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Alan Watts
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| "We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided
by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to
gain mastery over yourself.... It is not a matter of sitting back and
accepting." | |
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
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| "We are the painters of own self-portraits. Who we become will be
determined by our attitudes, our actions and what we learn." | |
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Mary-Ellen Drummond
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| "We can never have enough of that which we really do not want." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "When the fight begins within himself, A man "s worth
something." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he
hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite
right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has
lost in holiness." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is
helpless to make oneself understood." | |
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Lionel Trilling
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| "Wherever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for
satisfaction without, lead it within; train it to rest in the Self." | |
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Bhagavad-Gita
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| "You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know
other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet." | |
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John D. MacDonald
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| "You will never have a greater or a lesser dominion than that over
yourself." | |
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Leo J. Muir
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| "You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over
yourself.... the height of a man"s success is gauged by his self-mastery;
the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment.... And this law is the
expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over
himself will have no dominion over others." | |
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Leonardo da Vinci
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