Oneself Quotes

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. — Joseph Campbell
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. — Albert Camus
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. — Albert Camus
Testing oneself is best when done alone. — Jimmy Carter
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. — Paul Cezanne
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. — Lydia M. Child
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself… — Agatha Christie
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. — Emile M. Cioran
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. — Eldridge Cleaver
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train… — Jean Cocteau
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. — Jean Anouilh
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a… — Thomas Aquinas
The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself. — Seneca the Younger
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself- if… — Nhat Hanh
It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience. — Berthe Morisot
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself. — Andrew Schneider
That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us… — Unknown Author
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. — Andre Gide
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. — Laozi

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