Himself Quotes

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Vaclav Havel

Laugh, Looking, Anyone

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz

Self, Person, Often

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Hope, Long

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson

Care, Others, Poor

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Samuel Johnson

Others, Oppress, Undervalue

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Hermann Hesse

Special, Again, Once

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
John Locke

Person, Nobody, Property

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James A. Baldwin

Heart, Dangerous, Nobody

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope

Happy, Others, Desire

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Horace

Wise, Free, Command

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Karl Barth

Religion, God, Give

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Jean de La Fontaine

Fool, Nothing, Friend

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger

Experience, Leader, Risk

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle

Crisis, Character, Makes

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

Beauty, Truth, Equality

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal

Destiny, Faithful, Muslim

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras

Depression, Control, Cannot

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Men, Feeling, Two

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

True, Claims, Gives

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide

Become, Ugly, Butterfly

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron

Hope, Fear, Nothing

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.
Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, Wisdom, Fool

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time, Him, Again

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Thomas Fuller

Action, Devil, Devotion

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
Ramakrishna

God, True, Free

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Nothing, Integrity

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
Dwight L. Moody

Heaven, Resolve

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men, Happy, Within

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell Lowell

Great, Sincere, Dealing

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