An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself; he deals with men as a trader - not as a looter; as a producer - not as a Attila.
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Who serves a greatness not his own,
For neither praise nor pe... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks... KATHERINE HOWE That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pe... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to othe... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to oth... HAZRAT ALI It is a weak, insecure and dishonest man who seeks to make himself look accomplished, not through hi... IRENE ROCHE Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others ... ALBERT EINSTEIN As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and divine... ROBERT G. INGERSOLL One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself... GEORG GRODDECK When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter of cours... UNKNOWN An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... A. W. TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... AIDEN WILSON TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that... A.W. TOZER By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ... ERICH FROMM By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ... ERICH FROMM How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s... PAUL HOFFMAN The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled o... THEODOR ADORNO A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, wi... AXEL MUNTHE When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no... NOAH WEBSTER A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself... TOBSHA LEARNER He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. JOSEPH STALIN The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased wi... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he s... THOMAS HOBBES That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he s... THOMAS HOOD History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL He may or may not have viewed himself as a fine artist, but he did photos for himself as well as com... LEE BRUMBAUGH It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflectio... PAULO FREIRE When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnip... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He who lives not to others, lives little to himself. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE He was a great person to have on staff. He made a real contribution, not only by his own writing, bu... GORDON DAVIDSON I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for... TERENCE The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishm... ERNST JüNGER See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but t... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th... THOMAS HOBBES He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique ... THEODOR ADORNO This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS One is rated by others as he rates himself. PROVERB One is rated by others as he rates himself. FRENCH PROVERB Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others. ENGLISH PROVERB An individualist—a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has n... DONALD KINGSBURY By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own developmen... ANDRE GIDE Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence,... JAMES ALLEN Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a
being of power, intelligence,... JAMES ALLEN Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the ... LUIGI PIRANDELLO A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by viol... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualificati... GEORGE ELIOT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that the... JOHN DEWEY The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. ... CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Behind everyone who behaves as if he were superior to others, we can suspect a feeling of inferiorit... ALFRED ADLER Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself... URSULA K. LE GUIN Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself
with the affairs of others. UNKNOWN Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart,- ye... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SIDNEY MADWED Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ... SYDNEY MADWED Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for p... FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY When we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for hi... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. SAMUEL JOHNSON Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, eve... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�... SETH ADAM SMITH The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he... G.K. CHESTERTON No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for eac... IMMANUEL KANT Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also f... MARTIN LUTHER Failure to recognize one's own absolute significance is equivalent to a denial of human worth; this ... VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH SOLOVYOV How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. S... CHARLES LAMB The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than o... CRISS JAMI The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor a... CHARLES EASTMAN To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness... ERIC HOFFER Every man's his own friend, my dear," replied Fagin, with his most insinuating grin. "He hasn't as g... CHARLES DICKENS Memory and imagination help [a man] as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the ... WILLIAM MORRIS As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary m... SHERWOOD ANDERSON A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot co... JAMES ALLEN The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his... LAO TZU There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty t... LAFCADIO HEARN So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratifi... JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free he is his own trap. L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap. L. RON HUBBARD Man is not suffering by external forces as much as his own dysfunctional mind and self inflicted neg... ADITYA AJMERA One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understandi... HARRY A. OVERSTREET One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understandi... WALTER SCOTT The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey throu... JOHN WILLIAMS One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, withou... B. CARROLL REECE I wanted this movie to feel as much as possible like a cousin of 'Smokey and the Bandit,' and Burt R... JAY CHANDRASEKHAR A man is as old as he feels himself to be. ENGLISH PROVERB He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped t... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness ... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
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