I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry Rollins

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
Isaac Rosenberg

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
Iris Chang

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.
Robert Delaunay

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
John Cazale

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
Georges Courteline

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
Julian Sands

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
Edward Hoagland

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
David Bailey

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe