Quotes of: Oneself Keyword

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.

Tori Amos

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Georges Courteline

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

It is almost impossible to live a life of failure if one learns to have faith in God and in oneself.

Edmond Mbiaka

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Franz Kafka

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Ethel Percy Andrus

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

Emile M. Cioran

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Bertrand Russell

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

Gustav Mahler

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

Mahatma Gandhi

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Ivan Turgenev

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

Malcolm McDowell

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Thomas Aquinas

Answers to the most bewildering questions can be got only when asked to oneself

Life

To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

Consumed

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

A Circle of Quiet

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Vaclav Havel

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry