Oneself Quotes

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

In the end one only experiences oneself.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

Human dignity demands courage to defend oneself.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.