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Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
Difficulties
John Neil

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When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.
Self-improvement
Richard A. Nelson

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
Work, Hard
Sir Isaac Newton

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Power
Reinhold Niebuhr

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Humility
Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Self-control
Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
self-esteem
Friedrich Nietzsche

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
Life and Living
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Lies and Lying
Friedrich Nietzsche

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Goodness
Friedrich Nietzsche

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
Service
Earl Nightingale

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We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Success
Earl Nightingale

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Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.
Hatred
Richard M. Nixon

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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Autonomy
Kwame Nkrumah

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In a friend you find a second self.
Friends and Friendship
Isabelle Norton

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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Appearance
Rosie O'Donnell

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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Children
Austin O'Malley

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Housework
Ann Oakley

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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
Obesity
Susie Orbach

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A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
Leaders and Leadership
Jules Ormont

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Nationalities and Nationalism
George Orwell

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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Survival
George Orwell

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
Goals
Herbert A. Otto

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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
Gifts
Ovid

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That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
People
Ovid

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