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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Jane Wagner

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Agatha Christie
English mystery author (1890 - 1976)

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Confucious

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power"
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly
(1903 - 1974)

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Niels Bohr
Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Booth Tarkington
US novelist (1869 - 1946)

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius, Analects, XV.24
Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

Francis Marion
US army officer in American Revolution (1732 - 1795)

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Robert Fritz

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson
28th president of US (1856 - 1924)

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

Admiral Hyman Rickover

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Gottfried Reinhardt

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