Himself Quotes

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.