Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. — J. Oswald Sanders
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against.… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love… — Erich Fromm
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost. — Zadie Smith
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I… — Douglas Coupland
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write… — Billy Collins
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self… — Steven Pressfield
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other… — Nicole Krauss
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. — Virginia Woolf
It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea… — Francis Crick
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir
To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown. — Karen Horney
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how… — Pico Iyer
It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting;… — Antonin Sertillanges
If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is… — Marvin J. Ashton
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church.… — M. Scott Peck
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought… — Fred Rogers
Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock. — Cassandra Clare
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser… — Marguerite Yourcenar
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs… — Diana Gabaldon
To be understood is to prostitute oneself — Fernando Pessoa
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world,… — Charles Baudelaire
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person… — Kate Morton
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. — Miriam Toews

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