Himself Quotes

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

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.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

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

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.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.