Themselves Quotes

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand

While, Unique, Himself

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Dr. Seuss

End, Try, Start

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson

Society, Live, Actually

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

Help, Black, Dark

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Bryant H. McGill

Change, Courage, Happen

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule

Work, Lazy, Down

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Aldous Huxley

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy, May, Enough

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

Start, Seriously, Literary

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sun Tzu

Good, Enemy, Old

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, Deceive, Grown

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Feelings, Words, Results

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams

Men, Confidence, Creative

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet

Children, Left, Educated

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie

Matter, Mediocrity, Impressive

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

Criticism, Fury, Departure

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Age, Men

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Find, Deceived, Allow

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Jung

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Level, Places

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Care, Eyes, Nose

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

Job, Made, Getting

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas

Wise, Evil, Wrong

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo

Society, Down, Others

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Children, Understand, Forever

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Hard, Person

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Person, Living

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia

Live, Poverty, Read

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