Quotes and Sayings About Oneself
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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
