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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
[ Service ]
George Ade
George Ade books
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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
[ Respectability ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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87 votes
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
[ Feminism ]
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot books
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79 votes
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
[ Joy ]
Sir James M. Barrie
Sir James M. Barrie books
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86 votes
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
[ Taxes and Taxation ]
Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson books
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73 votes
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
[ Men and Women ]
John Berger
John Berger books
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77 votes
Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves.
[ Laziness ]
Bible
Bible books
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29 votes
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.
[ Poverty and The Poor ]
Bible
Bible books
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41 votes
People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
[ Excellence ]
Ken Blanchard
Ken Blanchard books
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65 votes
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
[ Comedy and Comedians ]
Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck books
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32 votes
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
[ Government ]
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte books
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33 votes
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
[ Integrity ]
Gamaliel Bradford
Gamaliel Bradford books
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35 votes
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
[ Teachers and Teaching ]
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht books
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51 votes
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
[ Pride ]
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte books
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101 votes
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
[ Cities and City Life ]
Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke books
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26 votes
People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.
[ Misfortunes ]
Brouhours
Brouhours books
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49 votes
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
[ Principles ]
Albert Camus
Albert Camus books
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28 votes
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
[ Silence ]
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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24 votes
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
[ Work ]
Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie books
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35 votes
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
[ Enemies ]
William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing books
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29 votes
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
[ Acting and Actors ]
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase books
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
[ Persuasion ]
Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield books
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65 votes
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
[ Time and Time Management ]
Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield books
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68 votes
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
[ Time and Time Management ]
Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield books
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66 votes
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
[ Angels ]
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton books
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65 votes
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
[ Habit ]
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie books
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27 votes
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
[ Sympathy ]
Randolph Churchill
Randolph Churchill books
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25 votes
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
[ History and Historians ]
Marcus T. Cicero
Marcus T. Cicero books
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28 votes
No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
[ Grief ]
E. M. Cioran
E. M. Cioran books
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19 votes
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
[ Goals ]
Alexander Clark
Alexander Clark books
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50 votes
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.
[ Environment ]
Robert Collier
Robert Collier books
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33 votes
What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
[ Superiority ]
Confucius
Confucius books
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28 votes
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
[ Suicide ]
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly books
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30 votes
No one every listened themselves out of a job.
[ Listening ]
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge books
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19 votes
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
[ Motivation ]
Mike Ditka
Mike Ditka books
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32 votes
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
[ Neighbors ]
Norman Douglas
Norman Douglas books
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60 votes
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
[ Morality ]
William J. Durant
William J. Durant books
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26 votes
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
[ Self-improvement ]
Tryon Edwards
Tryon Edwards books
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37 votes
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
[ Wit ]
George Eliot
George Eliot books
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22 votes
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
[ Fools and Foolishness ]
Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis books
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30 votes
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
[ Action ]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson books
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10 votes
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
[ Trust ]
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson books
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39 votes
The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.
[ Weakness ]
G. Emmons
G. Emmons books
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31 votes
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
[ Perfection ]
Epictetus
Epictetus books
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76 votes
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
[ Vocation ]
Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman books
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There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
[ Methods ]
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon books
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22 votes
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
Henry Ford
Henry Ford books
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23 votes
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
[ Problems ]
Henry Ford
Henry Ford books
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25 votes
There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
[ Obedience ]
William Edward Forster
William Edward Forster books
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28 votes
Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
[ Popularity ]
Fournier
Fournier books
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25 votes