Make Oneself Quotes

23 quotes by 22 authors

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I… — Maurice Blanchot
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… — Frederic Bastiat
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. — Cyril Cusack
Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself… — Michael Jackson
Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that… — Columba Marmion
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,… — Michel de Montaigne
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared â€” this must some day become the highest maxim… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett
One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun. — Raoul Dufy
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. — Pablo Picasso
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. — Lionel Trilling
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To… — Susan Sontag
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive… — R. D. Laing
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish. — Alan Bennett
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear… — Alfred Adler

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