Himself Quotes

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.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

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

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.