Best Self Made Man Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We need the assistance of others to be born into this world and to leave it. Any success between those two points is a result of similar cooperation. 'Self-made' people can't claim all credit for themselves.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“The truth is - no matter how “self-made” you think you are, you are really made by many who have invested in your life. Be known as a thankful and grateful person… and be known as the person that is investing in others to build them up, as well. It’s your way of paying back the debt that others have invested in you.”

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Book:Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity

Source: Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity

“What gives me strength is the feeling of being independent. In effect, I'm really just a dilettante. I've lived, explored, and worked - but only in nonjobs. I've often achieved success against all the predictions. And I've done it by following a very simple pattern of behavior: stick at it and do everything in my power to make it happen.”

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Book:My Life at the Limit

Source: My Life at the Limit

“Opportunities, contrary to popular belief, do not fall from the sky. We create them. I appreciate effort invested. I like my food homemade and my people self-made.”

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Author:Petra Poje - Keeper of The Eye

“Naskar is made by Naskar alone, not an industry or benefactor.”

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Book:Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?”

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Book:The Memoirs of an Amnesiac

Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac

“Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.”

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Book:American diary, 1898

Source: American diary, 1898

“A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.”

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Author:Christina Stead

“It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.”

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Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.”

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Author:Ethel Mumford

“We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.”

“Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.”

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Author:Josh Billings

“The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.”

“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

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Author:Joseph Heller

“I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.”

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Author:Dan Mangan

“Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.”

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Book:The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

“There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.”

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Author:Frederick Douglass

“We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.”

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Book:Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass

Source: Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass

“Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.”

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Author:Paul Henderson

“My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired material, moral or intellectual excellence, honest labor faithfully, steadily and persistently pursued, is the best, if not the only, explanation of their success... All human experience proves over and over again, that any success which comes through meanness, trickery, fraud and dishonour, is but emptiness and will only be a torment to its possessor.”

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

“My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

“We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.”

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Book:The Compound Effect

Source: The Compound Effect

“Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.”

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Author:James Hillman

“There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate.... The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even.”

“Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.”

“Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“Self-made men often worship their creator.”

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Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.”

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Author:E. B. White

“Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.”

“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”

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Book:The Miracle of Motivation

Source: The Miracle of Motivation

“When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .”

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Author:Kirk Kerkorian

“Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.”

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Author:Isadore Sharp

“A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.”

“A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.”

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Author:William Cowper

“Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.”

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Author:Frederick Douglass

“I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.”

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Book:The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

“We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!”

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Book:In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion

Source: In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion

“The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.”

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Book:Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass

Source: Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass

“The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.”

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Author:Kurt Lewin

“It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.”

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Author:Michael Hutchence

“There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.”

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Book:Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (2)

Source: Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (2)

“The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth”

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Book:A New Society: Reflections for Today's World

Source: A New Society: Reflections for Today's World

“My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.”

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Author:Tamara Ecclestone

“A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.”

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Author:Al Goldstein

“A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.”

“When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?”

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Author:Glenn Beck