Himself Quotes

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.