Himself Quotes

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

I don't think he believed most of the things he said himself.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.