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Self Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
- We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity…
- Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
- The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such…
- Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.
- The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
- To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It…
- Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
- The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
- We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
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