Quotes of: Oneself Keyword

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

Clifton Fadiman

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

Oscar Wilde

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

Romola Garai

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Edwin Markham

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

Nicolas Chamfort

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

François Magendie

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

Gautama Buddha

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Clara Schumann

Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things.

Joan Ambu

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Basil Rathbone

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Baruch Spinoza

Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

Gary Hopkins

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

Julian Sands

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

Mike Medavoy

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

Lydia M. Child

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malcolm McDowell

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.

Anish Kapoor