Top 73 Quotes About Best Oneself
#1. I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.
Michael Silverblatt
#2. One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.
Barbara Myerhoff
#4. At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#5. Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. I believe that true identity is found ... in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#7. Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
#8. I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
Therese Of Lisieux
#9. Its best to turn to no one, to seek to please no one, as if there were only oneself in the world. The pleasure of others is a by-product after all, and if ever the whispering voices are allowed to crowd out the one voice, the result is this ... a sort of high-pitched silliness, a terrible silliness.
Elizabeth Taylor
#10. It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.
Neil Gaiman
#12. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway.
Mother Teresa
#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. The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between oneself and life's opportunities has shut.
KathleenA. Brehony
#15. I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I want to spend my time learning what goes into a whole and happy life, then building that life the best I can.
Steve Goodier
#16. The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly golden opportunities do not arise to benefit oneself, but in order to benefit others.
Etienne De L'Amour
#17. The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#18. The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength.
Peter Damian
#19. A dreamer rises above their inherent fearfulness that they will always produce inferior work and grants oneself a license to put forth their best effort.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#20. The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
Edward T. Hall
#21. It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#22. I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.
Romain Gary
#23. One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.
Shirley Maclaine
#24. The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
C.S. Lewis
#25. The best method of protecting oneself against the inflow of negative thoughts being released by other people is that of keeping the broadcasting station so busy sending out positive thoughts that no time will be available for receiving negative thoughts. This formula is unbeatable.
Napoleon Hill
#26. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.
Phil Zimmermann
#27. In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.
Mantak Chia
#29. Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.
Thomas Hughes
#30. One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
Tom Skerritt
#31. Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Michael Korda
#32. In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.
Theodor Reik
#33. To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
Sigmund Freud
#35. Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#37. In the weak, lack of strength to defend oneself passes over into complaining. This can be observed in children when they are mistreated by bigger children; but the best always stay obstinately and defiantly silent.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#38. Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
George Pierce Baker
#39. It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
Socrates
#40. For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.
Glenda Jackson
#41. Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#42. Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.
Grant Morrison
#43. I wrote: teaching what was for me the only truth, namely, that one should live so as to have the best for oneself and one's family.
Leo Tolstoy
#44. Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#45. My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#46. While it is best to believe in oneself, a little more from others can be a great blessing, a thing to be thankful for.
Ogwo David Emenike
#47. The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
Abbie Hoffman
#48. I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.
Chris Lowe
#49. It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.
David Michie
#50. Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one's own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one's children.
Ellen Key
#51. Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
C.S. Lewis
#52. 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
#53. Turning oneself to the misfortunes of others is the best way to dispense with personal troubles. Hadn't Lord Byron himself said, "The busy have no time for tears"?
Martha Hall Kelly
#54. The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Frank Herbert
#55. The best way to handle pain and disappointment is to bury oneself in work.
Preeti Shenoy
#56. To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
Plato
#57. A person's desires, the things a person found beautiful, were probably best kept to oneself.
Victor Lodato
#58. While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.
C.S. Lewis
#59. One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one's way to get the best for oneself.
Ayn Rand
#60. It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.
Allen Drury
#61. It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#62. It is sinful for one to not strive to become the best version of oneself as one would be robbing oneself and the world of the wonderful talents, love, peace, and joy that was never unleashed from within oneself.
Shay Dawkins
#63. One has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.
Barbara Woodhouse
#64. There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
Doris Lessing
#65. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world
making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#66. To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
Brand Blanshard
#67. Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
D.H. Lawrence
#68. If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
Aldous Huxley
#69. The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,' observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked sharply sideways. 'Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it! Or do you suggest we wait for summer?
Joe Abercrombie
#71. Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one
says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.
Henry Ford
