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After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."
— Chuck Yeager
Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.
— Napoleon Hill
Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
— Ambrose Bierce
Man is emphatically self-made.
— John Henry Newman
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
— James Hillman
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
— Al Goldstein
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
— Beatrice Webb
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
— Oscar Isaac
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
— Abraham Lincoln
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
— Joseph Heller
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
— Che Guevara
I made my name". What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development
— Sunday Adelaja
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
— William Cowper
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!
— Frederick Douglass
The worst thing about being concise with people is the game of puzzle you've made them play.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
— Isadore Sharp
Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?
— Oscar Levant
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
— Frederick Douglass
A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
— Tamara Ecclestone
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
— Ethel Mumford
Is there anyone more insufferable than a self-made man?" I heard Dr. Kimbrough ask. I
— Robert Lee Hamady
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
— Christina Stead
As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.
— Derek Leebaert
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
— George Matthew Adams
Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband.
— Elona Washington
There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.
— Joe R. Lansdale
