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" Quotes and Sayings About self

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Fear Interest Men Moved
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Anything Believing Happen Magic
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Abandon Avoided Better Dangers
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Against Author Even Every
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Do-It-Yourself Done Thing Want
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Achieve Demanded Greater He
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Character Develops Itself Life
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

Also Before Biggest Came
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Conquer Conquered Self Will
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
Best Best Way First Others
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Act Beyond Commit Conduct
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What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Another Blind Needs Person
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Achievement Born Great Great Achievement
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Drawn Enough Eye Hold
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Purpose
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Another Anyone Difficult Energy
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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Away Balance Give How
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I Love I Write Just Like
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

Intend Like Myself Necessarily
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Aloof Doing Kind Known
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Best Creation Deepest Emotion
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Dare Myself Places Say
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All men are driven either by design or default. Instead of strolling along with the “default circumstances” you find yourself in, strive to align your life with the instruction manual of the designer of life; God Almighty.

God Life Design Strive
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority Poisons Takes
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

Nas
Challenging Creatively Me Myself
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Nas
Crazy Everybody Out Please
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I think of myself as a very lazy author.
Author I Think Lazy Myself
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Pessimism Luxury Jew Allow
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Admit Between Deny Difference
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Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

Allowing Building Empathy Function
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
Commit Mighty Purpose Yourself
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He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision

Support Take Decision
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Believe Faith Abilities Humble
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Battle Happiness Life Retreat
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Bright Picture Happy Expectations
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Spend Practical Learn Value
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Shoulder Drop Atlas World
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Stamp Indelibly Mind Mental
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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Change Work Seem
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

About Always Learn Relationship
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

About Anything Change Control
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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

Words Expression Action Gesture
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Intellectual Sevility Power Betray
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Education Self-fulfilment Environment Explore
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'Work while it is day...for the night comes when no man can work' I find myself thinking about how profoundly deep this statement is

Work Day Night Thinking
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Always Attempting Business Disprove
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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Come Happens Itself Make
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Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

Listening Fellow Talk
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