Himself Quotes

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly.

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.