Top 1200 Himself Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.

The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction - a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory - who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

Chaplin himself was the greatest scene stealer of all time. No matter what was happening Charlie could draw attention to himself - if he wanted to.

When I'm interviewing someone, I want to make sure that he thought enough to take care of himself - to dress appropriately and to groom himself properly.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

When you face two options and each seems to please God, consider the one that displays God's glory, power and strength. This makes room for God to reveal Himself to you and show Himself through you. Don't be fearful about the hard road he may ask you to take He desires to show Himself strong in you and will encourage you to do things that require trust and faith.

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.

The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as subject, as an "I", to whom the whole world is Object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the Spirit of God.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.

Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life.

The only thing a true introvert dislikes more than talking about himself is repeating himself.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.

When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally.

Jeff Sessions gets the job, right after he gets the job, he recuses himself. Was that a mistake? Well, Sessions should have never recused himself. And if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody else.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

The Lord Himself reveals the Path, He Himself is the Doer of deeds.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.