Oneself Quotes

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

If one writes the rules then one can contradict oneself. It's all about rhetoric, about official narratives.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to know and understand oneself.

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.

Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

One eventually has enough even of oneself.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.