Self Made Quotes - Page 2

• We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Successful, Men, Self

  "Secrets of their success". Interview with Jennifer Reingold, archive.fortune.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Leaders are not born or made - they are self made

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Leader, Born

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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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• Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

  James Alexander Thom

  Ignorance, Fighting, Self

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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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• Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.

  E. O. Wilson

  Independent, Intelligent, Self

  "The Meaning of Human Existence" by Keith Hess, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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• I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word

  Laverne Cox

  Self, Made

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• The trumpet player, Ronnie Hughes, has still got his chops today but for some strange reason the culture doesn't call him because he's 83-years-old. And these people are in their 70s and 80s and 90s and came with such verve every day and would still be shooting these 10 and 12 hour days. So, that in itself made this an extraordinarily special occasion for all of us. It wasn't a job for the crew after a few days, it took on another tone.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Jobs, Player, Years

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. 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. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, People, Soul

  "Jim Carrey Receives Honorary Diploma from Maharishi University of Management". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.iowasource.com. May 24, 2014.

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• I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

  Tina Turner

  Dream, Self, Class

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• Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, School, Men

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

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• a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sacrifice, Self, Poor

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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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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• Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made.

  Tony Robbins

  Being Yourself, Unique, Different

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to sleep at night, or keep our food down.

  Dominic Lawson

  Taken, Sleep, Night

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• Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Made, Chains, Blacksmiths

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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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• 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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• Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.

  Eric Foner

  Hero, Men, Race

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• We're different men [with Donald Trump], different life experiences. But I've always been struck by our common heritage. His grandfather immigrated to this country just like my grandfather. His dad was a self-made businessman, who built up a business with his two hands. And my dad followed his dreams to Columbus, Indiana, helped build a small business in that town.

  Mike Pence

  Dream, Country, Dad

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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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 father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Father, Men, Self

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• the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Struggle, Politics, Politician

  Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”

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