If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
If I'm not happy with how someone is showing up, I can only be honest and hope that my feelings resonate and… — Stacy Keibler Copy Share Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as… — James Meade Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist… — Daniel Guerin Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself. — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use. — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within. — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
