A Quote by Gertrude Atherton

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

Gertrude Atherton

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Admiration Consolation Much Self

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Gertrude Atherton
American - Author
October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Francis Bacon

I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.

Henry George

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather, consolation is the first step in regaining personal equilibrium and strength, which necessarily precedes the ability to act.

Vera Nazarian

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Karl Barth

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

Golf giveth and golf taketh away. But it taketh away a hell of a lot more than it giveth.

Simon Hobday

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

Robert Breault

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

Saul Leiter

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

Kazuo Ishiguro

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

Alice Walker

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.