1.
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
Indira Gandhi
Believe in one's own potential.
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.
5.
If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
Thomas Keating
7.
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Matthieu Ricard
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
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.
In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.
Billy Collins
20.
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
Dalai Lama
22.
Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
Edsger Dijkstra
24.
To live is to express oneself freely
Bruce Lee
26.
To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.
Bruce Lee
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.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
Alan Watts
30.
One can run away from anything but oneself.
Stefan Zweig
32.
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
Robert Bresson
33.
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
Margot Fonteyn
36.
Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.
Albert J. Beveridge
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.
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.
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.
Peter Matthiessen
48.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
Voltaire
49.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
Gustav Mahler
50.
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
Dogen