Oneself Quotes

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it.

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.

To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.