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| Folk säger ofta att den och den inte har hittat sig själv. Men jaget är inte något man hittar, det är något man skapar. | Thomas S. Szasz (1920-) |
| The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had. | Grace Mirabella |
| Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off." | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. | Thomas S. Szasz (1920-) |
| For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Deny Self for Self's sake | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, "Good luck!" and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway. | Thomas S. Szasz (1920-) |
| You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. | Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) |
| Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. | Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) |
| A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our greed upsets this order and makes us run after so many things at once that through over-anxiety to obtain the trivial, we miss the most impo | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had. | Grace Mirabella |
| By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |