Himself Quotes
1491 quotes by 1115 authors
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What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
— Virgil
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
— George Bancroft
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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only…
— Graham Greene
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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is…
— Comte de Lautreamont
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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
— William Temple
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
— Andrew Carnegie
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An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
— Publilius Syrus
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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in…
— Roy L. Smith
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Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth…
— Sydney Madwed
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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often…
— Anthony Powell
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Man has no greater enemy than himself.
— Petrarch
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the…
— Ezra Pound
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Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
— John Milton
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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
— Blaine Lee
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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
— Mary Wilson Little
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The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
— Shirley MacLaine
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The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
— Marcel Pagnol
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