Himself Quotes

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

None but himself can be his parallel.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.