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Self Quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs…
- Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
- To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work;…
- Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is…
- The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
- Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
- Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are…
- There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than…
- To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so…
- Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order,…
- To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.
- So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompletenessunited, such strength of self-association that no…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster