Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“As a being of Power, Intelligence, and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains…

— James Allen

“Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity…

— Otto Weininger

“then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and…

— James A. Michener

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in…

— Stefan Zweig

“A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.”

— Giovanni Della Casa

“He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which is simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is…

— John Williams

“He must, therefore, be the model for everyone. He must be devoted entirely to the example of good living. He must be dead to…

— Pope Gregory I

“Whatever one can do by oneself, one must do it — for oneself.”

— Maya Realm

“No one can say he is himself, until first he knows that he is, and then what himself is. In fact, nobody is himself,…

— George MacDonald