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  • 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.

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

    Men   Self   Goal  
  • Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

    Successful   Men   Self  
  • I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

    Men   Self   Helping  
    Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”
  • 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.

    Christian   Men   Self  
  • 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 .

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

    Men   He Man   Get Up  
    Frederick Douglass (2013). “Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass”, p.134, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Father   Men   Self  
  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Men   Self   People  
  • 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.

    Grandmother   Men   Self  
    "Russell Baker: Gerald Boyd’s Book On Being Fired From The New York Times", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.
  • There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

    George Shinn (1994). “The Miracle of Motivation”, Tyndale House Pub
  • A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

    Pride   Men   Self  
  • Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

    Jobs   Men   Self  
  • When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

    Men   Self   America  
    Glenn Beck's Keynote Speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, www.c-span.org. February 20, 2010.
  • I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

    Believe   Men   Self  
    Source: www.themetropolist.com
  • Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

    Education   Men   Self  
    Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”
  • A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

    Men   Self   Feet  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2410, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Maturity   Men   Self  
    "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".
  • 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.

    Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.338, Hackett Publishing
  • Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

    Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.338, Hackett Publishing
  • Self-made men often worship their creator.

    Men   Self   Worship  
  • There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

    Men   Self   Made  
  • A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

    Believe   Son   Men  
    'House of All Nations' (1938) 'Credo'
  • 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.

    Reading   Science   Men  
  • 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.

    Life   Real   Men  
  • I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.

    Brother   Father   Son  
    Source: www.progressive.org
  • 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 may prefer a self-made name.

    Men   Self   Names  
    On Samuel Goldfish changing his name to Samuel Goldwyn, in Bosley Crowther 'Lion's Share' (1957) ch. 7
  • 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.

    Mean   Men   Self  
    "Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn".
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