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  • Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

    Failure   Self   Effort  
  • I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions.

    Song: Headlines, Album: Take Care, 2011
  • I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

  • We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

    "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.
  • One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.

    Running   Self   Years  
  • There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

  • I am a part of history whether people want to take it seriously or not.

    People   Want  
  • Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

    Self   Form   Should  
  • I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

  • Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions
  • What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

    "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.
  • I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

    Age   Mouths   May  
  • I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

  • Wherever I am, there is joy and laughter!

    Laughter   Joy  
    FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Oct 20, 2013
  • Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive

    C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.22, Multnomah
  • It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

    Movie   Way   Actresses  
    "R.I.P. Anita Ekberg (1931-2015)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2015.
  • There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

    Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.73, Image
  • Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram.

    Mother   Song   Attitude  
    "Song: 'Check The Rhime'". 1991.
  • The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.

  • Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

    C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.27, Multnomah
  • The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

    Poetry   Should   Haiku  
  • A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

    Self   Media   People  
  • The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

  • Barca is nothing but a small part of Real Madrid’s history

    Real   Madrid   Barca  
  • People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

    "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" edited by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 299), 2004.
  • Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.98, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth; from self-assertion, therefore he is distinguished; from self-glorification, therefore he has merit; from self-exaltation, therefore he rises superior to all. Inasmuch as he does not strive, there is no one in the world who can strive with him.

    Humility   Self   Shining  
  • Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.

    Joel Osteen (2014). “Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.427, Hachette UK
  • Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

    Truth   Smart   Believe  
  • My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

    Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.nas.gov.sg. January 24, 2004.
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