Top 1200 Himself Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth, He has not opened if for you but out of a desire to make Himself known to you. Do you not know that He is the one who presented the knowledge of Himself to you, whereas you are the one who presented Him with deeds? What a difference between what He brings to you and what you present to Him!

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly acquit the women. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. For if a man incites himself to drown, and will not restrain himself, it is not the water's fault.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself - not just for others, but for himself, to protect his deeply fragile ego. He lies endlessly, not just in the way sociopaths do, which is to con others, but also to delude himself.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop himself, in the same sense that the white man has developed himself. Then they can both come together and recognize each other as equals.

A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself.

We still have slavery of all kinds - slavery of thought, slavery of ideas, slavery of cultureand I think 'Roots' exemplifies, in a very strong way, man's need to think for himself, feel for himself, do for himself.

The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord's work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work.

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.