America Quote by Glenn Beck

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

— Glenn Beck

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

— George Matthew Adams

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind…

— George Matthew Adams

Shame is something that's man-made.

— Big Daddy Kane

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

— Will Rogers

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

— Chris Jordan

“Let us keep our shame and be made clean! Shame is not defilement, though a mean pride persuades men so. On the contrary, the…

— George MacDonald

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American…

— Christopher Dawson

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

— Che Guevara

The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative –…

— Kurt Lewin

I'm interested in the lives of Americans for whom the ways this culture has tried to define itself - that is, self-esteem defined by…

— Debra Granik

Every American was to become a performing self.

— Susan Cain