Himself Quotes

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

A man by himself is in bad company.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.