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- That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
- You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
- Jane Wagner
- Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
- Jane Wagner
- The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
- John Foster Dulles
- No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
- Greville
- When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it.
- Author Unknown
- Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
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