Himself Quotes

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I don't even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.