Himself Quotes
1491 quotes by 1115 authors
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In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.
— Samantha Power
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A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself…
— Steve Prefontaine
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
— J. B. Priestley
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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
— Marcel Proust
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without…
— Marcel Proust
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Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
— Pythagoras
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
— Pythagoras
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Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
— Dennis Quaid
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking…
— Thomas de Quincey
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
— Francois Rabelais
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is…
— Ramakrishna
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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
— Ayn Rand
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry…
— Rachael Ray
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So…
— Pat Robertson
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It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his…
— John Buchanan Robinson
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.
— ASAP Rocky
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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
— Jim Rohn
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