Himself Quotes
1491 quotes by 1115 authors
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
— Sun Tzu
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
— A. P. Herbert
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the…
— Sallust
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants…
— Jeremy Taylor
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from…
— Walter Savage Landor
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What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus…
— George Herbert Mead
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God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others,…
— George A. Smith
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes…
— Alexandre Dumas
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that…
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
— Jesus Christ
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
— Jack Kevorkian
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Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.
— Alveda King
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I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to…
— David Frum
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I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.
— John Bolton
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Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority,…
— Jon Meacham
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Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy…
— Melissa Rosenberg
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Can policy be both wise and aggressively partisan? Ask any Republican worth his salt and the answer will be an unequivocal yes. Ask a Democrat…
— Thomas Frank
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Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.
— John Podhoretz
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The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and…
— Toby Jones
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When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.
— Eric Ripert
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