Himself Quotes

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.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.