Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

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
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

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