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Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack. — John Eliot

We cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time. — Calvin Miller

A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you. — Carol Grace

If someone is speaking to you and elevating themselves at the expense of another, consider the source a non-factor; that's keepin' it 'sucka-free'. — T.F. Hodge

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. — Henry David Thoreau

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. — Werner Herzog

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little. — Plutarch

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior. — Chris Argyris

Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves. — Sengcan

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. — Alain De Botton

All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature. — Bell Hooks

What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves? — Katherine Dunn

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished. — Morley

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

People who judge you are often themselves craving approval. — Emma J. Bell

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person. — Chris Wooding

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'. — Willis Harman

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves. — Thomas Sherlock

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value. — Sam Altman

Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves — Brian Tracy

You can tell a lot about a country by observing how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry. — Michael Lewis

A poem is a frozen moment
melted by each reader for themselves
to flow into the here and now. — Hilde Domin

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. — Confucius

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance. — Michel De Montaigne

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient. — Mahalia Jackson

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness. — Thomas Ligotti

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult. — John Quincy Adams

I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously. — Tig Notaro

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. — Kenneth Minogue

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances ... a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. — Ernst Haas

Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it. — Reg Revans

When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others. — Nathaniel Branden

Thank you. This kimono was handmade by the Chinese silkworms themselves, I'm led to believe. — Jonathan Dunne

She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not. — Jonathan Franzen

History is written by people. People aren't always honest with others, or with themselves. — Hilary Thompson

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves. — Zainab Salbi

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves. — Ernest Hemingway,

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell. — H.L. Mencken

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. — Robert Blair

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover). — Brenda Ueland

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves. — Honore De Balzac

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves. — Tim Allen

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army. — Petra Kelly

Once people get to the promise land, they have to perform miracles by themselves. — Sunday Adelaja

They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

lunches at which everyone segregated themselves by rank and caste - — Hanya Yanagihara

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves. — Jon Hurwitz

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves. — Aristotle.

The method preferred by most balding men for making themselves look silly is called the comb over. — Dave Barry

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards. — Leon Festinger

Words after all are nothing by themselves. — Vivek Shanbhag

Trust that things do work out by themselves sometimes. — Beth Harbison

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it. — Theodore Roosevelt

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves. — Tom Clancy

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. — Taiichi Ohno

The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws - which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior. — Robert M. Pirsig

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. — Norman Thomas

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand. — Benjamin Disraeli

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion. — Plutarch

Do you know who are Awesome?
Those who Believe in themselves. — Mohith Agadi

People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves. — George Eliot

I have never believed that things happen by themselves. — Gilles Duceppe

You never can truly help people by helping them, but you can help people by teaching them how to help themselves. — Debasish Mridha

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound. — James McKean

Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves. — Ingrid Weir

I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves. — Laozi

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves. — Idries Shah

The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans. — Stephen Baxter

She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like to think they decide matters for themselves. — W. Somerset Maugham

This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony. — Pooja Perumal

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. — Plato

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant. — John Henry Newman

Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves. — Brian Tracy

But things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him. — Anthony Trollope

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. — P.D. Ouspensky

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions ... — David Hume

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying. — Zachary Quinto

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,
they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment. — Frances Power Cobbe

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit. — Aldous Huxley

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive. — Jessica Savitch

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. — Friedrich Schiller

So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs
only a price. — F. Sionil Jose

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake. — Michael Shurtleff

Happy are those who are satisfied by life, who amuse themselves, who are content. — Michel Houellebecq

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves. — Isaac Mizrahi

Do not blame other people for being themselves, you will only be frustrated by it. — Garth Stein

... who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, ... — Allen Ginsberg

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. — Oscar Wilde

Some people are motivated by visualizing themselves reaching their dream. Some people are motivated by the nightmare of not reaching it. Do both. — Robert G. Allen

Nobody should feel pain all by themselves. — Lemony Snicket

The writers I know seem constitutionally unable to allow themselves to be discouraged by failure. — William G. Tapply

Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world. — Bill Frist

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. — Etgar Keret

It is by your own that you have to learn a lesson and they by themselves so that they will blame you not. — Auliq Ice

Time is a funny thing. It can take some people a whole lifetime before they realize they've been playing tug-of-war all by themselves. — Karen White

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves. — Maya Rudolph

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current toward the open seas. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin