Oneself Quotes
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Oneself Quotes & Sayings
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
Authenticity reduces stress and produces faith in oneself and in the potential to grow and learn.
— Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
— Albert Camus
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
— Matthieu Ricard
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.
— Mariah Nelson
How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?
— Nico J. Genes
The human condition ... is defined by the aspiration to always supersede oneself, which in turn requires nonconformity.
— Pablo Antonio Cuadra
A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.
— Raheel Farooq
Just because I understand does not mean I agree.
— Carlos Wallace
To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.
— Carlo Rovelli
We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.
— Bryant McGill
Find comfort in questioning yourself.
— Bryant McGill
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
— Harold Bloom
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
— Joyce Carol Oates
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The unmerited dislike of another made one think less of oneself. We are enlarged by the love of others; we are diminished by their dislike.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Only learning oneself better, and understanding one's place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.
— N.K. Jemisin
The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.
— Maria Montessori
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.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
— Mother Teresa
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
— Barbara Hambly
Relax and be free. You don't have to prove anything.
— Marty Rubin
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Genuine security an only be obtained by looking inside our oneself.
— Matthew Donnelly
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
One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless. It
— W. Somerset Maugham
While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.
— Gil Fronsdal
Besides, a new decade is a chance to find oneself at the beginning of things. Oh, life! What a sweet little Etch A Sketch of time you are!
— Sloane Crosley
When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.
— Clare Vanderpool
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.
— Gautama Buddha
When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.
— Fuminori Nakamura
committing oneself to being fashionable was simultaneously committing oneself to being perishable. I
— Kathleen Rooney
To know oneself means above all to know what one likes
— Marty Rubin
To pretend is to know oneself.
— Fernando Pessoa
Free your mind, become who you are.. the mind is the biggest drug.. and everyone is addicted.
— Jonathan Bailey
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
— Edward Benson
I am the master of my destiny.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.
— Tracy Kidder
If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
— Thomas Keating
A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.
— Stan Beckensall
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
— Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
— Theo Van Doesburg
Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.
— Mandy Hale
Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.
— Tisha Marie Payton, MHR
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.
— Mohammed Ali Bapir
Everything and everybody that's busted can be fixed. That's what I think.
— Kathleen Glasgow
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
— Denis Diderot
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
— Thomas Huxley
When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.
— Confucius
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.
— Patricia Hampl
Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.
— William Arthur Ward
To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.
— Pope Paul VI
Those who seek eternity find a mind of infinity
— Ana Claudia Antunes
It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)
— Paul Tillich
To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.
— Joseph Conrad
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
— Iris Murdoch
true authority came from sharing the hard work, not attempting to place oneself above it.
— John Flanagan
One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
— Franz Grillparzer
Society always has problems with anyone who combines courage and curiosity with a strong belief in oneself.
— Protima Bedi
Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?
— Brian Evenson
When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.
— Narissa Doumani
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
— Virginia Woolf
Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.
— Lorin Morgan-Richards
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
— Yoshida Shoin
Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
— Amartya Sen
When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness.
— Virginia Woolf
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
— Criss Jami
As love leads the way, the steps will be made easy.
— David Scott
The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
— Diogenes Of Sinope
