Oneself Quotes

1593 quotes by 905 authors

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great… — Lance Secretan
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free. — James A. Baldwin
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life. — Albert Camus
God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One can't decide for… — Mel Gibson
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! — Alice James
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...… — Thomas Aquinas
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... — Unknown Author
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is. — Erich Fromm
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of… — Wilfred Trotter
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. — Michel de Montaigne
To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with… — Philip Kapleau
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. — A A Milne
Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another. — Pope Benedict XVI
To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors. — Wes Fesler
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of… — Jean Dubuffet
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. — Jules Renard
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with… — Henry Ward Beecher
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. — Tennessee Williams

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