Quotations
Quotes:
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
View quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
View quotes by Simone De Beauvoir
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
View quotes by Alexander Chase
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
View quotes by Jean Anouilh
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
View quotes by Duc De La Rochefoucauld
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one
View quotes by Ursula Le Guin
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
View quotes by Sigmund Freud
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
View quotes by Joseph Campbell
To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.
View quotes by Henri Philippe Petain
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
View quotes by Gamaliel Bailey
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
View quotes by Charles Baudelaire
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
View quotes by Oscar Wilde
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
View quotes by Stephen Fry
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
View quotes by Queen Christina
To go away is to die a little, it is to die to that which one loves: everywhere and always, one leaves behind a part of oneself (Seul)
View quotes by Edmund Haraucourt
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
View quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
I find it doesn't pay to take oneself too seriously. And I like that sort of irreverence when I see it with other people.
View quotes by Frank Darabont
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
View quotes by Dame Edith Sitwell
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
View quotes by Carl Gustav Jung
Proverbs:
To Deceive Oneself Is Very Easy
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