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Last updated on October 19, 2024.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it. — © Donald Johanson
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world.
The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?" — © Desmond Tutu
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.
Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — © David Lodge
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities. — © Ikkyu
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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