Himself Quotes
1491 quotes by 1117 authors
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president,…
— Russell Baker
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James A. Baldwin
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance.…
— James A. Baldwin
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
— Honore de Balzac
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or…
— Honore de Balzac
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
— William Barclay
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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of…
— Javier Bardem
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
— Henry Adams
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
— Henry Adams
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When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he…
— Roseanne Barr
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
— Karl Barth
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come…
— Bruce Barton
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
— Bernard Baruch
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself…
— Jean Baudrillard
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