Self Made Quotes

• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

  George Matthew Adams

  Success, Encouragement, Character

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• Winners are not born, they are self-made.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Self, Winner

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.13, Crown Business

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• After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.

  Jim Croce

  Philosophy, Personality, Individuality

  Song: One Less Set Of Footsteps

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• We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Success, Self

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• I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Girl

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

  Christina Stead

  Believe, Son, Men

  'House of All Nations' (1938) 'Credo'

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• My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.

  Kevin Hart

  Men, Self, Goal

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• A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Self, Genius

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.13, VM eBooks

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• A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

  Al Goldstein

  Men, Self, Parent

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• A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Life, Real, Men

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• I now realize there are millions of self-made millionaires who started with nothing. They dug inside themselves to find the answers and they succeeded. There is nothing anyone else can do that I can't do.

  Dean Graziosi

  Self, Answers, Realizing

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• Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.

  James Hillman

  Men, Self, Ideas

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Self, Names

  On Samuel Goldfish changing his name to Samuel Goldwyn, in Bosley Crowther 'Lion's Share' (1957) ch. 7

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Luck, Men

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• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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• There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Self, Made

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• Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

  Frederick Douglass

  Mean, Men, Self

  "Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn".

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• I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

  Dan Mangan

  Believe, Men, Self

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

  Ethel Mumford

  Jobs, Pride, Men

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• When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

  Glenn Beck

  Men, Self, America

  Glenn Beck's Keynote Speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, www.c-span.org. February 20, 2010.

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• He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

  Joseph Heller

  Failure, Men, Self

  1961 Of Colonel Cargill. Catch-22, ch.3.

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• I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

  Frederick Douglass

  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.338, Hackett Publishing

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• Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.

  Jim Carrey

  Going Out, World, Realizing

  "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

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• The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.

  B. C. Forbes

  Reading, Science, Men

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