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Oneself Quotes

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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
Indira Gandhi

Believe in one's own potential.
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2.
There are things one must do for oneself.
Robert Mugabe

One must take matters into their own hands.
3.
Rise above oneself and grasp the world.
Archimedes

Ascend beyond one's limits and apprehend the universe.
4.
Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale

5.
If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
Thomas Keating

6.
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
Galileo Galilei

7.
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Matthieu Ricard

8.
One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9.
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
Thomas Huxley

10.
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Gerald Brenan

11.
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
Socrates

12.
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
Rabih Alameddine

13.
Feeling free inside oneself is being free.
Rei Kawakubo

14.
To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
Evita Peron

15.
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Alain Badiou

16.
Working on photography is working on oneself.
Irving Penn

17.
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G. I. Gurdjieff

18.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Frank Herbert

19.
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
Dalai Lama

20.
In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
Billy Collins

21.
Be a light unto oneself
Jiddu Krishnamurti

22.
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
Edsger Dijkstra

23.
Sometimes one barely understand oneself.
Pope Alexander VI

24.
To live is to express oneself freely
Bruce Lee

25.
True victory is victory over oneself.
Morihei Ueshiba

26.
To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.
Bruce Lee

27.
The will to be oneself is heroism
Jose Ortega y Gasset

28.
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.
Vittorio De Sica

29.
One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

30.
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
Robert Bresson

31.
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
Margot Fonteyn

32.
In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.
Paula Modersohn-Becker

33.
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
Michael Novak

34.
Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.
Albert J. Beveridge

35.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

36.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
Alan Watts

37.
One can run away from anything but oneself.
Stefan Zweig

38.
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
Ursula K. Le Guin

39.
Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
Alexandra David-Neel

40.
The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
Steven Biko

41.
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
Martin Buber

42.
... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley

43.
The greatest victory is the one over oneself.
Gautama Buddha

44.
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
Douglas Coupland

45.
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
Joseph Wood Krutch

46.
It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
Socrates

47.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
Voltaire

48.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
Gustav Mahler

49.
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
Dogen

50.
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.
Peter Matthiessen