Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance. — Helen Fielding
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the… — Harlan Ellison
One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against… — Stefan Zweig
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. — Simone de Beauvoir
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to… — Virginia Woolf
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature. — Voltaire
To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle — Yuu Watase
There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Writerâ€™s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something Iâ€™ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by… — Orson Scott Card
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. — Robert Louis Stevenson
When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself. — Clare Vanderpool
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. — Chinua Achebe
Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more… — Victor Serge
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by anotherâ€™s ambitiousness. — Susan Sontag
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette… — Vincent Van Gogh
Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself — Friedrich Nietzsche
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others. — Janet Frame
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the… — Oscar Wilde

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