Himself Quotes

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.