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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
Argument
Edward Koch

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All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
Courage
Sheldon Kopp

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Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
Pride
Korean Proverb

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
Business
Ray Kroc

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The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
Misers and Misery
Jean De La Bruyere

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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Self-knowledge
Jean De La Fontaine

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Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
Self-reliance
Jean De La Fontaine

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One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
Inferiority
Jean De La Fontaine

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In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Jealousy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Jealousy
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Flattery
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
Confidence
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Deception
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
Appearance
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Peace
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Motivation
Donald Laird

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.
Goals
Ricki Lake

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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Ingratitude
Walter Savage Landor

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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Self-control
Lao-Tzu

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
Self-knowledge
Lao-Tzu

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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Desire
Lao-Tzu

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
Self-love
Lao-Tzu

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Stupidity is a force unto itself.
Stupidity
Latin Proverb

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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Passion
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
Self-knowledge
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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