Charity Quote by Ernest Hello

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into…

— Jean Cocteau

Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in…

— Baron d'Holbach

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.

— Wyndham Lewis

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

— James Allen

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't…

— Michel de Montaigne

Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he…

— Michel de Montaigne

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

— Anonymous

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian

“A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may…

— Barry Unsworth

Man is what he wills himself to be.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives…

— Max Stirner