Self Quotes - Page 16

• 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, Filled Up, Half

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

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• All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.

  J. G. Holland

  Exercise, Power, Men

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.15

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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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• Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

  J. G. Holland

  Wicked, World, Reform

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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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• I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

  Seishiro Itagaki

  Defense, Self Defense, Convinced

  Oakland Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1939.

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• Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Spiritual, People, Technique

  "The Teenage Drug Epidemic". El Paso Physician, vol 6, pp. 5-6, 1983.

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• In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

  Walter Schellenberg

  Brother, War, Government

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

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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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• Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Views, Voice, Giving

  Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, August 9, 2012.

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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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• Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!

  Javad Alizadeh

  Political, Solitude, Mind

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• Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Light, Order

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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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• The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

  Ethel Mumford

  Jobs, Pride, Men

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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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• The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.

  Anil Sinha

  Empowering, Preparation, Capability

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• The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

  Brad Warner

  Truth, Convenient

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• A groundbreaking, fast-paced, action-oriented new training program for dealing with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. Self-Coaching is a dramatic and fresh departure from traditional therapeutic approaches and a motivational training program for reclaiming life by breaking the habits that feed these problems.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Anxiety, Coaching, Training

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• I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.

  Susan Minot

  Hurt, Heart, Boys

  Susan Minot (2014). “Thirty Girls”, p.167, Vintage

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• The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Personality, Excellence, Deeper

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