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Self-Made Quotes

Bryant H. McGill quote: "Self-made men often worship their creator."
Self-made men often worship their creator. Bryant H. McGill
Michael Hutchence quote: "It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy..."
It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity. Michael Hutchence
Learned Hand quote: "A self-made man may prefer a self-made name."
A self-made man may prefer a self-made name. Learned Hand
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million... Malcolm Gladwell
Do what thy manhood bids thee do,From none but self expect aplause;He noblest live and noblest diesWho makes and keeps his self-made laws. Richard Francis Burton
Earl Nightingale quote: "We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it."
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it. Earl Nightingale
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human... Hannah Arendt
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. Elizabeth Bishop
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dieswho makes and keeps his self-made laws. Richard Francis Burton
Margaret Atwood quote: "His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by..."
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. Margaret Atwood
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism. Carlos Fuentes
Arthur Erickson quote: "God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions,..."
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. Arthur Erickson
William Cowper quote: "A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator."
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator. William Cowper
Joseph Heller quote: "He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. Joseph Heller
E. B. White quote: "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of..."
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. E. B. White

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