Himself Quotes

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

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

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'