Themselves Quotes
2739 quotes by 2189 authors
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style,…
— Pietro Aretino
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Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and…
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
— Aristotle
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If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.
— Eve Arnold
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an…
— Mary Astell
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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an…
— David Attenborough
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
— Dean Acheson
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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at…
— Saint Augustine
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— Saint Augustine
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
— Jane Austen
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man…
— Teresa of Avila
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No…
— Teresa of Avila
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on…
— Michelle Bachelet
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What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution…
— Michele Bachmann
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be…
— Francis Bacon
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The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
— Michael Badnarik
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It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
— David Bailey
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