Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put… — Henri Matisse
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. — Herman Melville
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. — Michelangelo
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. — Moliere
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. — Michel de Montaigne
It's dangerous to assert oneself. — Jeanne Moreau
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. — Iris Murdoch
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. — Iris Murdoch
I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any… — Brittany Murphy
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. — Guru Nanak
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need… — Henri Nouwen
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing… — Blaise Pascal
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our… — Cesare Pavese
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the… — Cesare Pavese
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. — Evita Peron
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. — Pablo Picasso
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. — Pablo Picasso
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. — Pablo Picasso
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one… — Tariq Ramadan
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict… — Ayn Rand

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