Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand
The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers… — James A. Baldwin
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over… — Octave Mirbeau
To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. — James A. Baldwin
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself… — Emile M. Cioran
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for… — Deepak Chopra
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous,"… — Joan D. Chittister
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. — Carl Jung
One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it. — Baltasar Gracian
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others. — Baltasar Gracian
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding… — Walker Percy
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to… — Walker Percy
Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to… — Eugene Gendlin
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better… — Mahatma Gandhi
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,… — Michel de Montaigne
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)… — Andre Maurois
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. — Mencius

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