Self Made Quotes - Page 5

• Self-made men often worship their creator.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Men, Self, Worship

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• Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Monsters, World

  "House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

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• People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

  Richard Russo

  Self, People, Details

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.204, Atlantic Books

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• My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Believe, Men, Self

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• The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

  Johannes Stark

  Discovery, Facts, Atoms

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• General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

  Jim Talent

  Team, Successful, Decision

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• I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.

  Eric Maisel

  Powerful, Party, Self

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.

  Chuck Lorre

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) The Thanksgiving Decoupling". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Self, Sea

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.85

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• Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.

  Val Kilmer

  Self, People, Literature

  "Val Kilmer Is, I Mean As, Mark Twain". Interview with Jenny Block, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Acceptance, Self

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness for conversion hide behind their own good works. This is the reason that self-righteous people are so angry with gospel preachers, because the gospel does not spare those who will not submit to the righteousness of Jesus Christ!

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Mean, Self

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• In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

  Kathleen Norris

  Pain, Regret, Loss

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

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• I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, People, Groups

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• When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Strength, Encouragement, Strong

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• Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.

  Isadore Sharp

  Success, Men, Self

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• There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Men, Self, Made

  Joe R. Lansdale (2010). “Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (2)”, p.101, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Men, Self

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Mother, Tough, British

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• The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.

  Vera Farmiga

  Giving, Birth, Womanly

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  O. Henry

  Thanksgiving, Home, Self

  O. Henry, John Hollander, Miles Hyman (2005). “O. Henry”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• There is no such thing as a self made spiritual leader. He is able to influence others spiritually only because the Spirit is able to work in and through him to a greater degree than in those he leads.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Spiritual, Self, Leader

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• We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Prayer, Yield, Self

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• A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Self, Feet

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2410, Delphi Classics

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