Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

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
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil… — Max Born
Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself. — Sydney J. Harris
There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing… — Albert Camus
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the… — Leonardo da Vinci

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