Himself Quotes

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

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

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

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

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.