Himself Quotes

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

I wouldn't say there is one guy that I would say patterns himself after me.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there.