1327 Himself Quotes for You to Enjoy

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. Joseph Brodsky

Man Change Soul Political Believe Tries Some Outside He Looks Make Himself Sort Within Personal Movement Movements Ashamed Who

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee. Joseph Brodsky

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth. Joseph P. Bradley

Truth Religion Human Being Sometimes Goodness Endeavor Duty Convictions Every Relate Aim Our Definition High Given Himself Self-Improvement Privilege Effort Improve May Human Being Should Actions

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself. Joyce Carol Oates

Time Good Man Unhappy Good Man Thought Anti-Semitism Mark Mark Twain Laws Various Various Reasons Had He Also Concerned Terrible Himself Feminist Very America Hard Twain Reasons

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. Kris Kristofferson

God Women Better Made Think He Himself Than Anything Kept

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers. Lee Iacocca

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. Liberty Hyde Bailey

Education Man Sunset Carry Triumphant Purpose True Himself Teach

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while. Lincoln Steffens

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. Maria Montessori

Life Work Education Man Himself Conditions Which

A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him. Mary Gaitskill

Sad Time Reality Sadness Will Feeling Mistakes Seeing He Involved Him Himself His Person Experiences Anything Hard Who Hard Time

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded. Max Heindel

Power Earned Favor Has-Been Promotion Rise Given More Mystic Fired Advancement Masonry Himself Till Been Than Pistol Any Candidate Dependent Stored Cannot Loaded

How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah. Meir Soloveichik

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. Muhammad Iqbal

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. Napoleon Hill

Success Time Failure Man Other At Least One One Time Find Foot Over Well Himself Least Did Hanging Achieved Who Ever Brink

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. Norman Mailer

Good Good And Evil Evil Minority Group Member Minority Group See Insignificant Both Marvelous Exceptional He Forced Himself Awful

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. Owen D. Young

Future Man Men Other Minds Worry About Never Put Him Himself Understand Store Place Workings Who Need

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul Tillich

Man Become Destiny He Supposed Make Himself His Asked Fulfill

My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own. Phil Jackson

Service God Man Father Own Farm Dedication Dairy Consider Purpose He Liked Calling Himself Learned Greater Felt His Than Child Your Farmer Dedicated Who Enjoyed

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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