Oneself Quotes

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

One truly must have suffered oneself to help others.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.

The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.