Oneself Quotes

1593 quotes by 950 authors

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or… — Kevyn Aucoin
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. — Marcus Aurelius
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied… — David Bailey
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. — James A. Baldwin
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all… — James A. Baldwin
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the… — Saint Basil
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed… — Pope Benedict XVI
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. — Henri Bergson
One should make morals judgements for oneself. — Kathryn Bigelow
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. — Elizabeth Bowen
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community. — John O. Brennan
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes… — Julie Burchill
And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the… — Nicolas Cage
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler

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