Oneself Quotes
1593 quotes by 905 authors
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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
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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
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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
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
— Albert Camus
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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
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It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
— Alice James
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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
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Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself....
— Unknown Author
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The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
— Erich Fromm
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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
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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
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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
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
— A A Milne
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Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors.
— Wes Fesler
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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
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When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
— Jules Renard
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Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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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