Himself Quotes

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.