Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. — A.J. Cronin
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by… — Franz Kafka
To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like… — Rajneesh
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no… — Erich Fromm
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it… — Paul Valery
Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit… — Wes Fesler
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I… — Maurice Blanchot
One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries… — Robert Rauschenberg
In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself. — Robert Motherwell
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself... — Wystan Hugh Auden
What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. — Eduardo Chillida
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed. — D. H. Lawrence
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her… — Seneca the Younger
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his… — Frederic Bastiat
The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly." This means holding… — T. Harv Eker
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of… — Henry Ford
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of… — Francois Magendie
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac

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