Himself Quotes

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

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

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.