Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way -… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
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,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
For most Northerners, Texas is the home of real men. The cowboys, the rednecks, the outspoken self-made right-wing millionaires strike us as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and… — Javad Alizadeh Copy Share Image
“He was a tall, energetic, self-made man who had taught himself accountancy and banking through correspondence courses and had risen to his… — Kuan Yew Lee Copy Share Image
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine. — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Your dream is to be in a PIT,if you think someone should push you before you make it in life. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
I, along with everybody else, had bought into the myth of Donald being a self-made man and being a brilliant developer. I… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Facebook is primarily a mechanism for bonding, not bridging. Studies show that in the vast majority of cases, people live in self-made… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money!… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to… — Dominic Lawson Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches,… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
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