Oneself Quotes

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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. — David Rockefeller
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut… — Henry Rollins
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. — Bertrand Russell
Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices… — Paul Ryan
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort… — Francoise Sagan
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. — Clara Schumann
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between… — Joseph Stalin
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. — Gertrude Stein
To forget oneself is to be happy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. — Paul Tillich
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. — Lionel Trilling
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and… — Paul Valery
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. — Simone Weil
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless… — Simone Weil
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is… — Jessamyn West
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. — Oscar Wilde
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. — A. N. Wilson
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the… — Virginia Woolf

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