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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
I had no problem relating to Peter Parker. He feels like he might be in way over his head but is desperate to prove himself.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
My personal opinion is that an actor shouldn't bother himself about expanding his market. He or she should just do good films.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
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.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Those who used to ask my father to be ashamed of himself for training us in wrestling now say they wish they have daughters like me.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.