Self Contempt Quotes
18 quotes by 12 authors
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm awash in self-contempt!
— Woody Allen
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Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
— Eric Hoffer
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The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
— Karl Marx
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Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
— Eric Hoffer
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The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,…
— Eric Hoffer
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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
— Eric Hoffer
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It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s…
— Barack Obama
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Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your…
— Lorrie Moore
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world…
— Thomas Mann
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To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with…
— Richard Linklater
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It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them…
— Robert Fulghum
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
— Berthold Auerbach
Who Wrote These Self Contempt Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 18 Self Contempt Quotes as follows: