#elf

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#best #deeply #event #himself #his

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#greatest #human #human race #race #selfishness

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#i #keep #life #like #my life

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#been #centre #existence #god #had

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name. ↗

— Learned Hand

#may #name #prefer #self-made

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#convince #described #faithful #forward #give

If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me. ↗

— Ed Harris

#daring #emotionally #guess #i #interesting

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#deceives #despises #dupe #himself #hypocrite

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#childish #else #nice #pretending #profession

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. ↗