Oneself Quotes · Page 7

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

— Earl Nightingale

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

— Aimee Carter

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

— C. S. Lewis

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

— Steven Biko

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

— Gene Wolfe

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Belief in oneself is required for healing.

— Caroline Myss

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

— Simone Weil

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.

— Joseph Albo

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

— Marcel Proust

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

— Alexis Carrel

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home,…

— Franz Grillparzer

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

— Seneca the Younger

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit…

— Malcolm McDowell

Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.

— Walter Bonatti

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to…

— Otto Weininger

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which…

— Michel de Montaigne

Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to…

— Thanissaro Bhikkhu

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment…

— E. Stanley Jones

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general -…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that…

— David Zindell

Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a…

— Marc Ian Barasch

To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Those who allow themselves to be led by the Spirit understand that placing oneself at the service of the Gospel is not…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are…

— Jean Baker Miller

Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back…

— Michel Foucault

“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is…

— Carlos Castaneda

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I…

— Kingsley Amis

The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have…

— George Hackenschmidt

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

— Carole Bouquet

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

— Evita Peron

One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

— Sri Aurobindo

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

— Alice James

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

— Carl Jung

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

— Anatole France

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

— Michelangelo