Himself Quotes

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.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?