Himself Quotes

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.

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

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.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.