Self Made Man Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.

  Darren Hardy

  Successful, Men, Self

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

  Harry Hay

  Brother, Father, Son

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Fashion, Hero, Technology

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• It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Self, Filled Up

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.41

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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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• Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

  Russell Baker

  Grandmother, Men, Self

  "Russell Baker: Gerald Boyd’s Book On Being Fired From The New York Times", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

  Beatrice Webb

  Education, Men, Self

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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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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• I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

  Oscar Levant

  Men, Self, Helping

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate.... The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Struggle, Men, Self

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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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• 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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• We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, Black History, May

  Frederick Douglass (2011). “In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion”, p.230, Cornell University Press

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• It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

  Michael Hutchence

  Self, Publicity, Privacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wise, Men, Opportunity

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