Quotes of: Oneself Keyword

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

The Painted Veil

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Reflections on a Ravaged Century

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Lee G. Bolman

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Terence McKenna

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Lionel Trilling

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

Marc Jacobs

Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

Maria Sharapova

I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.

Brittany Murphy

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

Richard Attias

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Bernard Berenson

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

Iris Chang

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Paul Gauguin

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Erich Fromm

Nothing on earth can ever equate to the level of joy that comes with loving oneself unconditionally.

Edmond Mbiaka

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

John O. Brennan

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

Eduardo Chillida

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

G.I. Gurdjieff

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Greil Marcus