#themselves

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#anyone #cent #comes #complete #else

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#also #better #businesses #corporations #customers

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#arts #birth #brothers #call #certain

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#ever #except #perfection #stealth #themselves

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#dress #general #make #more #part

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#body #life #possession #right #soul

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves. ↗

— Eric Heiden

#character #enjoy #general #i #speak

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#afford #aside #being #buy #care

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#doctrine #numbers #others #over #persons

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#bring #distilled #feelings #i #i think