Oneself Quotes · Page 25

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through…

— Shantideva

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it…

— Albert Camus

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

— Oscar Wilde

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

— Gore Vidal

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

— Olga Korbut

“In one day everything will not come you but one day everything will come to you; I am the only one, the…

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

— Berthe Morisot

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

— Michael Tolkin

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity…

— Jane Frances de Chantal

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind…

— Ayn Rand

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is…

— Henrik Ibsen

One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not…

— Denis Diderot

The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill…

— Peter Damian

One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something,…

— Chogyam Trungpa

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and…

— Pierce Brosnan

It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite…

— Jeffrey Bernard

... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain…

— Lazare Carnot

Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of…

— Aleister Crowley

We were looking at weather and our relationships with weather. It goes to a few other places, and I don't want to…

— Travis Rice

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where…

— Arundhati Roy

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having…

— Mary Pipher

So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can…

— Mike Mason

Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion…

— John of Damascus

We tend to think of consecration only as yielding up, when divinely directed, our material possessions. But ultimate consecration is the yielding…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“It is indeed challenging to consider a dream within a dream as a dream, almost like getting lost within oneself.”

— Hafsa Tahir

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

— Tony Judt

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got…

— Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

— Frederick Lenz

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

— Emile M. Cioran

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

— Morarji Desai

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

— Otto Weininger

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

— Terence McKenna

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

— Ivan Turgenev

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than…

— Charles Spurgeon

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

— Michael R. Burch

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself…

— Anonymous

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

— Leo Strauss