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At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
— Brian Tracy
Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient.
— Hanif Kureishi
I see myself through others eyes and I am made anew.
— Molly Moore
Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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
My nose is broken," I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious.
"My ankle's broken," he said.
"Then I'll come to you. — Rick Yancey
"My ankle's broken," he said.
"Then I'll come to you. — Rick Yancey
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
— James Gray
Man is emphatically self-made.
— John Henry Newman
You're a soul made by God, made for God, and made to need God, which means you were not made to be self-sufficient.
— John Ortberg
Cinder grinned at him. He was usually so self-assured that in the rare moments when he was flustered, it made all of her insides swap wrong side up.
— Marissa Meyer
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
— Beatrice Webb
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.
— Earl Nightingale
The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
— Jean Edward Smith
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
— Christina Stead
Cosmetic surgery and the ideology of self-improvement may have made women's hope for legal recourse to justice obsolete.
— Naomi Wolf
People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.
— Lacey Mosley
I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?
— Oscar Levant
Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
— Frederick Douglass
Life is actually a self made web of fate.
— Steven Redhead
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
— Kevin Kelly
PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The self is made, not given
— Barbara Myerhoff
Unfair. I was fighting with some core, self-fulfilling loneliness that made me push people away.
— C.D. Reiss
Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.
— Sharon Salzberg
Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.
— Madonna Ciccone
There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
— B.C. Forbes
... and time is the stuff of which a self is made.
— Mohsin Hamid
I am a self-made brat.
— Steve Wynn
The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.
— Thornton Wilder
As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.
— Derek Leebaert
Through my pain and sorrow, God has prepared me to share His word with others in a way that was made just for me.
— Latorria Freeman
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
— Frederick Douglass
Think positively about yourself ... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.
— Heather Anastasiu
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
— John Wooden
I couldn't help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I'd had it off and on my entire life.
— Drew Nellins Smith
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
— David Nicholls
I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word
— Laverne Cox
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
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
— Jacques Barzun
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
— Arthur Erickson
[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself.
— Lindy West
MADDIE: Change is good. It's not always easy, but it's good. And it's time I made a few changes.
— Ruby Dixon
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
— Irving Layton
Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.
— Paul Hoffman
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
— Sarah Dessen
This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony.
— Pooja Perumal
a man without birth, without courage, without conduct. For my part, I declare, sir, it shall never be said that I made such a man my master. — Sarah Vowell
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
I am made of universal love. I embrace my interconnected self and let it bring me joy.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
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
Their Love said, "Made for Each Other"
Our Love says, "Made from Each Other — Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Our Love says, "Made from Each Other — Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
— Dante Alighieri
Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
— Naomi Wolf
There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.
— Frederick Lenz
I admire answers to which no answers can be made.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.
— Emma Donoghue
I knew my value because the world seemed to be denying it, and that just made me want to prove it even more.
— A.J. Mendez Brooks
I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.
— Madeleine Kuderick
Your inner Belly Dancer ... is your inner sensuality, your highest feminity, your great esteemed self made more apparent.
— Leandra J. Kalsy
I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
— Donzella Michele Malone
My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
— Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.
— Tina Turner
I AM GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THE
BACKSTABBING
BECAUSE IT MADE ME
A STRAIGHT-SHOOTER! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
BACKSTABBING
BECAUSE IT MADE ME
A STRAIGHT-SHOOTER! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
— Dolly Parton
Is there anyone more insufferable than a self-made man?" I heard Dr. Kimbrough ask. I
— Robert Lee Hamady
In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.
— Ryan Lilly
He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night.
— Eudora Welty
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.
— Frederick Lenz
The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
— Ethel Mumford
No one is self-made
— Gary Keller
One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.
— Criss Jami