Top 1200 Finding Oneself Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans are the same everywhere and that the degree of variation between members of our species is very slight. This is of course an encouraging finding; it helps arm you against news programs back home that show seething or abject masses of either fanatical or torpid people. In another way it is a depressing finding; the sorts of things that make people quarrel and make them stupid are the same everywhere.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

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

I believe in just doing it and not looking for excuses because who really cares in the end? No one but oneself.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.