Himself Quotes

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.