Himself Quotes

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.