Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. — Anni Albers
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side… — Madeleine L'Engle
I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. — Vaclav Havel
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to… — Tariq Ramadan
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm. — Barbara Hambly
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else. — Barbara Hambly
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more… — Emile M. Cioran
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within. — Emile M. Cioran
Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective… — Soren Kierkegaard
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself. — Diogenes
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple… — Rene Magritte
Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience. — Wes Fesler
There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of… — Dalai Lama
To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock. — Carl Jung
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. — Michael Novak
The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship and then spending… — Unknown Author
Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents; fear, too, of… — Franz Stampfl
The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious… — Gerard van der Leeuw
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth. — Larry McMurtry
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. — Paul Cezanne
How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself. — C.S. Lewis
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. — Albert Camus
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure,… — Alexis Carrel

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