Self Made Quotes - Page 4

• Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Self, Soul, Elements

  Elizabeth Bishop, “The Imaginary Iceberg”

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• Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

  Michael Moorcock

  Fate, People, Sinking

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• Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Self, Analysis, Lasts

  Pope Benedict XVI (2004). “Introduction to Christianity”, p.73, Ignatius Press

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• in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition.

  Hannah Arendt

  Character, Men, Self

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• The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

  Kurt Lewin

  Maturity, Men, Self

  "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".

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• Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Self, Preparation

  Orison Swett Marden, G. R. Devitt (1901). “Success Library”

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• We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

  Kin Hubbard

  Jobs, Men, Self

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• A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

  William Cowper

  Pride, Men, Self

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• I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Believe, Self, People

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• Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Attitude, Needs

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• I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Self, Actresses, Generations

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloe Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

  Paul Henderson

  Christian, Men, Self

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• We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

  Frederick Douglass

  Exercise, Thoughtful, Succeed

  Frederick Douglass, James Daley (2013). “Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.

  Tadao Ando

  Art, Museums, Self

  "Interview: Architect Tadao Ando on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". Interview with Peter Simek, www.dmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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• No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Made It, Gardening

  Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

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• I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

  Nia Long

  Self, Made, Never Compromise

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Self, Firsts

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• My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries.

  Steve Olson

  Art, Self, Giving

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• Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

  Frederick Douglass

  Opportunity, Important, Indispensable

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

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• There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, Self, People

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• Man is emphatically self-made.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Self, Made

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• Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.

  Joyce Brothers

  Children, Men, Self

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• America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

  Mark McKinnon

  Law, America, Self

  "America’s Artists Are the Ultimate Entrepreneurs: Let’s Give Them a Hand" by Mark McKinnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

  Walt Disney

  Success, Heart, Greatness

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• Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Doe, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.100, Lulu.com

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