Self Quotes

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Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment… — James A. Baldwin
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start. — Brian Tracy
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep… — Noah Porter
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from… — Horace Bushnell
I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I… — Jon Lovitz
Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday… — Jerry Seinfeld
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and… — Robert Foster Bennett
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves. — Johann Gottfried Herder
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Self knowledge is always bad news. — John Barth
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can… — Edward Abbey
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate… — Edward Abbey
One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers. — Edward Abbey
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if… — Edward Abbey
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn,… — Julian Barnes
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of… — Thomas Jefferson
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with the right to… — Samuel Adams
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among… — Thomas Jefferson

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