In this post, you will find great Himself Quotes from famous people, such as Kurt Vonnegut, Brie Bella, Thomas Aquinas, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Blaise Pascal. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
John Cena’s work ethic is beyond reproach. It’s been phenomenal to see what he does and he’s made himself a brand.
‘Cars 2’ is about a character learning to be himself. There’s times in our lives where people always say, ‘Well, you’ve gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.’ That’s the emotional core of the story.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring‘ and ‘sensitive‘ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don’t find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: ‘You simply don’t understand – how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?’ But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.
Don’t feel embarrassed if you’ve never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.
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.
Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior’s craziness and weird personality and Sting’s coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
I’ve seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them ‘mavericks with mentors.’ Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.
No quarterback ever won a championship that did it all by himself.
My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.
One of the greatest moments in anybody‘s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.
I remember Ron Atkinson used to play in the sessions at Manchester United when he was the manager. Rated himself as a player.
In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.
My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We’re building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
The world is… the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
The true success is the person who invented himself.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover‘s eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.
A woman’s life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man’s life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He’s my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He’s one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you’re looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you’re beginning to see the Earth evolve.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man’s faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we’ve got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.
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.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Integration is a man’s ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop‘s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as ‘an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.’
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual’s contribution far more than the individual himself.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
I consider myself an ordinary Muslim who is constantly working to put himself in the framework established by the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. I study the works of experts of jurisprudence, Koranic commentary, hadith commentary, and Sufism.
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
I’ve had the honor and privilege of knowing Jeff for over 25 years. He’s been a dear friend and a mentor, and there is no finer person in public service than Jeff Sessions. He’s conducted himself with the greatest integrity of any public official I’ve ever met.
An egotist is a person of low taste – more interested in himself than in me.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
It was the king’s army, the king’s people, the king’s taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself… One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.
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.
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you’ve got to want it.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself – as being a free black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, ‘Step from under the eaves and you’re a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.’ This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Obama’s not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn’t down for the apartheid struggle, but he’s clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.
Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
Pollock said several times that he couldn’t separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ‘social-worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.
Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?
There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.
A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That’s why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
John Austin, author of ‘Cubicle Warfare,’ has outdone himself with ‘Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction,’ a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to constructing thirty-five pocket-sized war machines, including a Clothespin Shooter, a Hanger Slingshot, a Paper-Clip Trebuchet, and Shoelace Darts.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.
Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners – that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‘evolver,’ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
A man’s opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
The real difference between a man’s scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then to implement it.
The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other’s slave.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
Any senator who commits himself or herself to something, should be man or woman enough to take a stand… If they give their word to support something that they are ashamed of, then that is a hypocrisy, and could be interpreted as not wanting to be associated with the matter.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge‘ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
I shot a pilot for ABC, which I’m a bit confused about what the actual title is – I heard it was called ‘Chosen.’ It’s directed by Roland Emmerich – the master of disaster himself – and it’s his idea and concept for the show that’s a supernatural thriller about good and evil set in contemporary modern day New York.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.
I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter – so was my father – and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn’t work against himself.
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.
He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
I watched Tim Tebow and how he played and how he carried himself and the good that he did for the game on and off the field. I knew that’s what I wanted to do.
A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
When people say, you know, ‘Good teacher,’ ‘Prophet,’ ‘Really nice guy‘… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.
My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He’s inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination – but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I’m a firm believer in God himself, but that’s as far as I can go. I’m not any denomination. I’m not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I’m none of those things. And I’m sure that’s just fine with God.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don’t know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. ‘Spartacus’ helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.
He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.
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.
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.
I have a son, who is a… not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
A human being’s first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer’s physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
It isn’t tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it’s separating himself from all the others.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Going into the Navy was the best decision I ever made in my life because it completely transformed that scared boy who didn’t have any dreams to someone who started to believe in himself.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
A man’s indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by appetites.
My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I’m like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I’m like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I’m like that.
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
We’re not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said… there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he’s right.
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
For Trump, success always has a single father – himself. Failure has a hundred – everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The ‘deep state.’ Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn’t do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.
Violence is man re-creating himself.
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don’t support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.
Having achieved and accomplished love… man… has become himself, his tale is told.
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
We need to make sure that there’s art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn’t in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn’t get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.
Kevin Sullivan? He’s Anthony Hopkins. The Prince of Darkness. The devil himself. Against the ‘American Dream‘ Dusty Rhodes, the chubby plumber‘s son from Austin, Texas. My God, those billboards go up, and you’re going to want to go see it.
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Ueli Steck, I’m absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
The writer must be a participant in the scene… like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn’t done anything.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what’s wrong with that?
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man’s problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.
