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Himself Quotes

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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.
Erich Fromm

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

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

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
Roald Dahl

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone de Beauvoir

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Demosthenes

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.
Richard M. Nixon

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Richard M. Nixon

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
Baltasar Gracian

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

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan

He who can believe himself well, will be well.
Ovid

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