Himself Quotes

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

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

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

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

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.