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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus

Education, Others, Nor

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers

Change, Person, May

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Vision, Takes, Limits

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.
Mitt Romney

Job, President, Economy

Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey

Life, Through, Decisions

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams

Government, Fight, Save

Every man is his own hell.
H. L. Mencken

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing, Same, Though

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller

Rather, Off, Efforts

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Caleb Carr

True, Job, Human

My mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Answer, Respond

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.
Erma Bombeck

Age, Strength, Him

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay

Serious, Software, Hardware

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, May, Enough

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Scott Adams

Problems, Engineers, Create

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
Marilyn Manson

God, Art, Spiritual

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
H. L. Mencken

Judge, Law, Student

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Self, Universe, Corner

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Erich Fromm

Love, Integrity, Self

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
Bill Gates

Food, Grow, Waste

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strength, Greatest, Whose

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley

Success, Mind, Often

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot

Silence, After, Write

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

Mind, After, Body

The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud

Ego, House, Master

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
Louise Brown

Yourself, Heart, True

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