Self Quotes - Page 18

• Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

  John Sullivan Dwight

  Spheres, Fitting

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 669-70, True Rest, 1922.

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• True love is humble, thereby is it known;
  Girded for service, seeking not its own;
  Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

  Abraham Coles

  Love, Humble, Vaunt

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.

  Dirk Benedict

  People, Dancing, Fake

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• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Taught, Doe

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• It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Said, Walks, Destructive

  "Ariel Rechtshaid: the producer behind Vampire Weekend, Haim and Sky Ferreira" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2013.

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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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• When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Whole, Universe

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• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Genius, Intention, Inconsiderate

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

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• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Unique

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• Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Morning, Tone, Righteous

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• Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Our World, May

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.98, Baker Academic

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• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Independence, God's Plan

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111

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• The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

  J. G. Holland

  Animal, Men, Helping

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• An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.

  Augusto De Luca

  Mother, Grateful, Creativity

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• I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Results, Ancestor

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• That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans.

  Israel Shahak

  Hate, Rights, Expression

  "Personality: Dr. Israel Shahak" by Richard H. Curtiss", the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, www.wrmea.org. June 1989.

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• You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Government, Pressure, Censorship

  "Un Expert on Democracy Highlights Importance of Free Expression, Information". news.un.org. October 28, 2013.

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• It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

  Robert A. Agresta

  Government, World, Modern

  Inauguration Speech at the Mayor & Council Meeting, January 2009.

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• Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Important, Slavery, Lessons

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Slave Narrative Six Pack 2”, p.281, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The greatest possession is Self-possession.

  Ethel Mumford

  Confidence, Possession

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• Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

  James E. Faust

  Cheating, School, Effort

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• Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

  Anil Sinha

  Confidence, Believe, Conviction

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• A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Morning, Sacrifice, Night

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• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Courage, Strong, Revenge

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• Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

  Joe Hyams

  Anger, Demand, Action

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.70, Bantam

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