Quotes with oneself

Quotes 81 till 100 of 128.

  • Konrad Adenauer The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
    Konrad Adenauer
    German politician (1876 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
    Target Zero: A Life in Writing (2015)
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • James Baldwin The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry Miller The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Milovan Djilas The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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  • Baltasar Gracian The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • A.J. Cronin The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
    A.J. Cronin
    Scottish novelist and physician (1896 - 1981)
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  • Milan Kundera The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Guy Debord There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Billy Gibbons They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Anna Freud Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Albert Camus To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Epictetus To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Walter Benjamin To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bruce Lee To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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