By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were… — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself. — James Franco Copy Share Image
The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
“Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to… — Elizabeth Day Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear;… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means… — Innocent of Alaska Copy Share Image
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Destiny is consciousness of oneself, but consciousness of oneself as an enemy. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image