Quotes of: Himself Keyword

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

Phillips Brooks

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

Raymond Queneau

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

Amy Carter

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Bert Williams

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

George Carman

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

George Dennison Prentice

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

James Russell Lowell

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

James Thurber

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Soren Kierkegaard

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Eliphas Levi

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Fanny Brice

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Jonathan Swift

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Mary Astell

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky