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You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
Attitude
Dr. Jerome Brunner

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Modesty
Jean De La Bruyere

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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Growth
Pearl S. Buck

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You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.
Spirit and Spirituality
Buddha

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Rewards
Buddha

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Purpose
Buddha

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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Flattery
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Power
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
Deceit
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
Self-control
Robert Burns

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
Time and Time Management
Leo Buscaglia

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What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
Gifts
Leo Buscaglia

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You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Parents and Parenting
Barbara Bush

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SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
Sin
Eric Butterworth

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Critics and Criticism
Charles Buxton

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Friends and Friendship
James F. Byrnes

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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Fame
Lord Byron

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Self-love
Lord Byron

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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Motives
Lord Byron

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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
Pity
Albert Camus

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Virtue
Albert Camus

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Belief
Thomas Carlyle

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Honesty
Thomas Carlyle

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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Romance and Romanticism
Thomas Carlyle

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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun