American culture Quote by Kurt Lewin

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

Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's…

— J. G. Holland

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

— Al Goldstein

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

— Joe R. Lansdale

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

— Oscar Levant

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

— Will Rogers

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

— Dan Mangan

Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.

— Isadore Sharp

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

— Learned Hand

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

— Glenn Beck

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

— Tamara Ecclestone

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the…

— Russell Baker