Top 100 Quotes About Themselves
#1. Dying is easy. Anyone can throw themselves onto the pyre and rest a happy martyr. Enduring the suffering that comes with sacrifice is the real test.
Jay Kristoff
#3. Those who say 'it's just an animal' are really saying more about themselves than they realize.
Christina Engela
#4. More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.
John Eskow
#5. It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.
Jodi Picoult
#6. Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.
Charles Shaar Murray
#7. Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
Alberto Manguel
#9. Perhaps the scenes of travel conjure themselves up before me and pass and repass in my imagination all the more vividly, because I lead such a vegetable existence that a call to travel would fall upon me like a thunder-bolt.
Rabindranath Tagore
#10. Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
Oscar Isaac
#11. Maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway
excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
Kathleen Winsor
#12. There is no prophecy in our day but history. But history is a trustworthy prophet. History is always repeating itself, because conditions are always repeating themselves. Out of duplicated conditions history always gets a duplicate product.
Mark Twain
#13. The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.
Anthony Albanese
#14. A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
Mohsin Hamid
#15. I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
Hampton Sides
#16. Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
#17. We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.
Rick Joyner
#18. I'm one of those actors who's going to have to create a space for themselves. It's very easy to be the young Tom Cruise, because Hollywood knows what to do with you. But if you're someone who's bringing someone slightly left of center to the table, you're not a sure thing.
Wentworth Miller
#19. People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.
Cobie Smulders
#21. The best part about being a matchmaker is you are getting credits in heaven, as I really believe I work for God. The worst part is that matchmakers can often fix everyone up, all the way to the altar, but cannot find love themselves, so it is bittersweet.
Patti Stanger
#22. Courage is living by the free will that one creates for themselves, not the life of monotony determined by another.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#23. I wanted to write some words you'd remember.
Words so alert they'd leap from the paper,
crawl up your shoulder, lie by your ears,
and purr themselves to you like baby kittens,
but it was rainy, so I laid there and daydreamed about you.
C.L. Foster
#24. People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.
Rachel Kushner
#25. Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It's the lack of limits they can't handle. That's when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.
Bill Bonner
#26. A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley
#27. Did you ever think how conceited those Oriental rug weavers are, to believe they have to try and make a mistake so as not to compete with God? Like they would have done it perfectly otherwise, if they hadn't forced themselves to mess it up?
Anne Tyler
#28. One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.
Stuart Duncan
#29. Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.
Patrick Ness
#30. Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
#31. The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.
Kristin Gore
#32. As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
Oscar Wilde
#33. The great white lions from the steps of the Public Library leaped together and threw themselves upon the iron steed and its dark rider. For
Diane Duane
#34. It's easy (and fair) to blame lousy management on lousy managers. But it's not enough. It's also necessary to blame the people who allow themselves to be managed so badly.
Tom DeMarco
#35. In fact some Jews themselves even claim that there should be a statue to Adolf Hitler in Israel because he created the state of Israel ... which is absolutely true, without Adolf Hitler Israel woud not exist
Eustace Mullins
#36. Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction
they see their objects always near, never in the horizon.
William Hazlitt
#37. I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
Jose Andres
#38. Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
Charlie Chaplin
#39. Fiction writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously - we're just daydreamers who daydream better than most.
Flavia Ida
#40. Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.
Joseph Campbell
#41. Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.
Hal Borland
#42. The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#43. Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis
#44. Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.
Steven Biko
#45. This may sound a cynical thing to say, but don't you think men sometimes leave difficulties to be solved by other people or to solve themselves? After
Barbara Pym
#46. Music is a powerful way for people to express themselves
Nina LaCour
#47. What provokes particular outrage and ridicule is the idea that children might feel good about themselves in the absence of impressive accomplishments, even though, as I'll show, studies find that unconditional self-esteem is a key component of psychological health.
Alfie Kohn
#48. When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.
Rashid Johnson
#49. As brands become larger, the need to reach greater numbers of customers makes them less edgy and dilutes their unique positioning as they try to please everyone. It is therefore not surprising to find such brands go into a few years of decline before they are able to reinvent themselves.
Nirmalya Kumar
#50. Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#51. Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands.
Elisabeth Elliot
#52. When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.
Bertrand Russell
#53. In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
Michael Graves
#54. When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Henry Ford
#55. Unlikely a handgun any more because it was around that time that the CorpSeCorps was confiscating those, having raised the spurious banner of civic safety and thus effectively securing a monopoly for themselves on killing at a distance.
Margaret Atwood
#56. Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?
Stephen Colbert
#57. At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#58. One does not need to pluck fruit from a tree that is about to be chopped down. The fruit will fall by themselves. Focus on the bigger purpose and the rest of your manifesto will follow as a matter of course.
Ashwin Sanghi
#59. My thinking is, government is really there to do the things that people absolutely can't do for themselves. And that's mostly involved with the things that might kill you. And what might kill me? The environment and terrorism.
Bill Maher
#60. When a husband and wife love each other, they reflect that same love that motivated Christ. They die to themselves and become one.
Aaron Smith
#61. I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.
Janet Frame
#62. We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke
#63. That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
Steve Vai
#64. I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.
C. JoyBell C.
#65. Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
Kiki Smith
#66. Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they'd had to share their rooms with others.
Orhan Pamuk
#67. The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.
Chris Van Allsburg
#68. Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them
Epictetus
#69. Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.
Edmond De Goncourt
#70. Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?
that the supreme values devaluate themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#72. Moreover, there is no "unconscious" mind distinct from the conscious, for the "unconscious" mind is conscious, though not of itself, just as the eyes see but do not see themselves.
Alan W. Watts
#73. Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's lives.
Shannon Leto
#74. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
Joseph Addison
#75. The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
#76. If we want young people to develop the habits of thinking for themselves, using their imagination, being open to new ideas, saying when they don't understand, and exploring real challenges together, then they have to see their teachers doing the same thing.
Guy Claxton
#77. Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.
Jean Piaget
#78. The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.
Betty Friedan
#79. Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
Matsuo Basho
#80. With all the touring and distractions going on, I would get a sound together but I wouldn't have time to work on it. So I sat on the road with the sketches and saw how they revealed themselves emotionally.
Justin Vernon
#81. Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined injustice of her youth, for with any proximity the constellations of some families generate among themselves an asperity that nothing can sweeten.
John Cheever
#82. It is not moving forward that is hard, it gets easier as you go. Once you take the first step, the rest reveal themselves to you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#83. I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.
Douglas Coupland
#84. Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
Dan Auerbach
#85. he wore his wealth with the comfortable indifference of someone born into it. New-made nobles, pretenders, and rich merchants simply don't carry themselves the same way. Alveron
Patrick Rothfuss
#86. A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
Ken Blanchard
#88. Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is ... But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them ...
Francis Hutcheson
#89. The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.
Jack Welch
#90. This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to
become evil!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.
Tobias Wolff
#92. However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.
Luis Marques
#93. I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves.
Mona Kuhn
#94. If everyone used the Internet to share the things they created themselves, what would that look like? I think it makes objects special again. I guess I'm not really advocating for no objects in the world, but rather the idea of creating within our present means.
Mary Mattingly
#95. The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
Caitlyn Jenner
#96. Subtle wits like to refresh themselves with a whiff of mild indecency.
Robertson Davies
#97. Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.
Brie Edison
#98. Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.
Rajneesh
#99. There were some kids at Tufts who had been in the army, but they stayed to themselves. I'm pretty sure we must have seemed like babies to them.
Robin Black
#100. The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.
C.S. Lewis
