Oneself Quotes

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.