Top 100 About Oneself Quotes
#1. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#2. The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much.
Virginia Woolf
#3. Love is not about oneself, but about the other. It's not about keeping, but about freeing. Love is not love if not shared.
Cristiane Serruya
#4. One should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started
Jean Cocteau
#5. The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself
Guy Finley
#6. The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.
Maurice Blanchot
#8. To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
Oscar Wilde
#9. I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.
Martha M. Moravec
#10. We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it is a necessary and basic dishonesty about oneself and one's whole situation ... We don't want to admit that we are fundamentally dishonest about reality, that we do not really control our own lives.
Ernest Becker
#11. Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.
Eric Kandel
#12. Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
Albert Camus
#13. To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either "I'm all good" or "I'm worthless; I'm no good." The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon
Eknath Easwaran
#14. Twin Flame spirituality is very pure.
It seems to be a step above individual spirituality.
I believe that is because the tf is not about oneself, but about God and all of humanity
Sienna McQuillen
#15. An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.
Steve Maraboli
#16. She felt that she had revealed something to Cat, and with revealing something about oneself there always comes a sense of lightening of the load that we all carry; the load of being ourselves.
Alexander McCall Smith
#17. One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Ivan Turgenev
#18. When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
Roald Dahl
#19. The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.
Solange Nicole
#20. Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.
Cecelia Ahern
#21. It's virtually impossible in America to be heavy and feel good about oneself.
Mary Pipher
#22. It feels nice to know about things and about oneself.
Aporva Kala
#23. Discourse about the world merges with confessional discourse about oneself.
Mikhail Bakhtin
#24. To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character
Marie Leneru
#25. I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
Laura Riding
#26. Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Michael Korda
#27. To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.
Virginia Woolf
#28. As one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Lillian Hellman
#29. Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
Alain De Botton
#30. Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Sydney J. Harris
#31. ...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#32. Writing about oneself is an egotistical adventure unless the act of self-exploration revolves around the distinct goal of heightening a person's cache of knowledge, ideas, and level of self-awareness.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#33. Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
George Sand
#34. Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
Simone De Beauvoir
#35. Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett
Daniel Kahneman
#36. To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#37. One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. Telling others about oneself is ... no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like
Jerome Bruner
#41. According to neuroscience research from 2012, it is intrinsically rewarding to talk about oneself. This is perhaps why Facebook, Twitter and blogging platforms like Tumblr have been such successful products.
Dan Ariely
#42. I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.
Oscar Wilde
#43. When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#44. To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'
Iris Apfel
#45. One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.
Sara Levine
#46. The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world.
There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.
Peter Hoeg
#47. One ought not talk about oneself, it may hide Jesus from view.
Bo Giertz
#48. One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
Anish Kapoor
#49. Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,
Milan Kundera
#50. Self-abuse is an infringement on one's own destiny caused by either ignorance about oneself or negligence of one's purpose!
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Orson Scott Card
#52. Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.
Amor Towles
#53. Meditation is not required to be one with self. All that is required is that you be about oneself, maintain oneself, and be true to oneself and your chakras will be aligned and your 3rd eye will no longer be blind.
Kenneth G. Ortiz
#54. Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.
Franz Grillparzer
#55. Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place.
Amit Abraham
#56. I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.
Giacomo Leopardi
#57. One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
Edward T. Hall
#58. A marriage only works if one opens to exactly that which one would never ask for otherwise. Only through rubbing oneself sore and losing oneself is one able to learn about oneself, God, and the world. Like every soteriological pathway, that of marriage is hard and painful.
Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig
#59. Spiritual awakening refers to a dramatic expansion in consciousness rather than a minor realization about oneself.
Jordan Jacobs
#60. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
Albert Camus
#61. I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Stephen Fry
#63. The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are the things they try to repress. The imitate and make out they love life!
Andre Gide
#64. A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.
Laura Riding
#65. American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.
Diane Wakoski
#66. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#67. Actually it deals ("as usual" I was about to say!) with Life, Love and Death. Because nothing in fact is more important. To occupy oneself with. To think of. To worry over. To be happy about. And so on.
Ingmar Bergman
#68. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace.
Alaric Hutchinson
#69. A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.
Cyril Connolly
#70. Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.
Jonathan Galassi
#71. In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you know, that goes up and down, and you can't judge how you feel about yourself based on what your sales is.
Kenny Loggins
#72. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.
Harriet Lerner
#73. Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.
Claudio Magris
#74. One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.
John Edward Williams
#75. He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases
Hjalmar Soderberg
#76. But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
Paul Gauguin
#77. We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#78. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
C. G. Jung
#79. It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.
Alfred Stieglitz
#80. Question: What is he? Answer: A sluggard; how very pleasant it would have been to hear that of oneself! It would mean that I was positively defined, it would mean that there was something to say about me. "Sluggard" - why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career. Do not jest, it is so.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#81. As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
Albert Camus
#82. I hope you're feeling better about yourself too, Camille. That's an important thing, liking oneself. A good attitude infects just as easily as a bad one." "Enjoy the horses." "I always do.
Gillian Flynn
#83. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.
Cheryl R Cowtan
#84. It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.
Henry Allen Ironside
#85. To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
Adam Mansbach
#86. Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!
Steve Karagiannis
#87. To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less ... selfish.
Alan Bennett
#88. As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.
Susan Sontag
#89. Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.
Jean Cocteau
#90. How can one betray oneself to such a degree? What corruption greater even than power can lead us to thus deny the proof of pleasure, to hold in contempt that which we have loved? ... I could have written about chouquettes my whole life long; and my whole life long, I wrote against them.
Muriel Barbery
#91. Children were quite disturbing really. It was difficult to think about children for long. They were all fickle little nihilists and one was forever being forced to protect oneself from their murderousness.
Joy Williams
#92. [A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie)
A.A. Milne
#93. Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.
Elisabeth Elliot
#94. A time is one's own, Eva, when oneself and one's peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise, a man is ruined when the times change but he does not. Permit me to add, empires fall for the same reason.
David Mitchell
#95. We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself.
Domenico Dolce
#96. If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.
Dalai Lama
#97. Success - is not about defeating others; but about defeating oneself
Ashok Kallarakkal
#98. Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.
Ellen Galinsky
#99. To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#100. When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
many things may come to the surface.
Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
or rather, of one's mind.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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