Himself Quotes

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

No man is wise enough by himself.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.