Oneself famous quotes
07-17-2025
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Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
-- Ada Velez -
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
-- Ai Weiwei -
It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
-- Aimee Carter -
To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
-- Ajahn Chah -
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
-- Alain Badiou -
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
-- Alan Watts -
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
-- Albert Camus -
The doctor of the future will be oneself.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
-- Alexis Carrel -
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....
-- Alfred Kazin -
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart -
Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
-- Amartya Sen -
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
-- Andre Breton -
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
-- Andre Gide -
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
-- Arnold Bennett -
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.
-- Arthur Miller -
The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.
-- Asger Jorn -
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
-- Barbara Hambly -
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
-- Barbara Hambly -
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!
-- Belle de Jour -
In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
-- Billy Collins -
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
-- Brand Blanshard -
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Â Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.
-- Bruce Lee -
One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.
-- C. S. Lewis -
One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.
-- Charles Trenet -
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.
-- Dalai Lama -
To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
-- Dalai Lama -
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
-- Eduardo Chillida -
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.
-- Edwin Markham -
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?
-- Emily Carr -
The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
-- Evita Peron -
To be understood is to prostitute oneself
-- Fernando Pessoa -
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.
-- Francine du Plessix Gray -
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
-- Gautama Buddha -
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
-- George Santayana -
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
-- Gerald Brenan -
To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
-- Gilles Deleuze -
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
-- Gustav Mahler -
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change...
-- Hans Hartung -
One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
-- Helen Fielding -
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
-- Iris Murdoch -
Working on photography is working on oneself.
-- Irving Penn -
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
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.
-- Jacob Epstein -
One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
-- James A. Baldwin -
To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
-- James A. Baldwin -
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.
-- Janet Frame -
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
-- Joan Baez -
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
-- John Berger -
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
-- Julian Sands -
Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.
-- Kano Jigoro -
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
-- Kate Morton -
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
-- Konrad Adenauer -
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
-- Laozi -
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
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.
-- Margaret Campbell Barnes -
To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily.
-- Marilyn Chandler McEntyre -
Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?
-- Marjorie Bowen -
One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
-- Mary Engelbreit -
There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.
-- Mary Renault -
It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.
-- Mary Travers -
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
-- Matthieu Ricard -
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
-- Maurice Chevalier -
One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
-- Mike Svob -
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
-- Miriam Toews -
To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.
-- Murray Kempton -
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.
-- Nelly Mazloum
