Himself Quotes

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. — Georges Clemenceau
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself,… — Jean Cocteau
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial… — A. R. Ammons
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live… — Maya Angelou
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. — Jean Anouilh
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak… — Piers Anthony
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way. — Thomas Aquinas
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who… — Thomas Aquinas
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of… — James A. Baldwin
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. — Benjamin Jowett
No man is hurt but by himself. — Diogenes
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. — William Hazlitt
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. — William Ralph Inge
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions — David Hume
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. — Joseph de Maistre
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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