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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe

Great, Greatness, Attain

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt

Respect, Hypocrite, Whom

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Music, Peace, Write

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

True, May, Another

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale

Experience, Greatest, Anybody

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius

Universe, Lives, Harmony

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

Life, Person, Find

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

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Marcus Garvey

Life, Success, Why

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
Bob Dylan

Call, Anybody, Poet

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato

Best, Victory, Another

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire

Understand, Speaks, Whom

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm

Life, Important, Give

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand

Themselves, While, Unique

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Real, Others, Excuses

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Child, Solitude, Creation

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin Luther

Life, Faith, Cannot

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee

Trust, Control, Cannot

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken

Relatives, Series, Cousins

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso

Seen, Painting, Blind

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
James Allen

Truth, Him, Cannot

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Esteemed, Imagines

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Person, Able

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Strength, True, Show

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
Dwight L. Moody

Friend, Jesus, Treat

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hope, Future, Enemy

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

Great, Leader, Wants

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

Happiness, Infidelity, Faithful

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Character, Fire, Down

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