Oneself Quotes

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.