Top 50 Quotes About What A Man Thinks Of Himself
#1. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation
Henry David Thoreau
#2. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.
Oren Lyons
#5. Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race!
Marisha Pessl
#6. Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.
Tina Fey
#7. Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
Corrie Ten Boom
#8. A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it ...
Susanna Centlivre
#9. There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#10. The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
Jose Bergamin
#11. The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.
James Allen
#12. The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Samuel Johnson
#13. When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?
Cat Johnson
#14. I said, "It's not like that." I wanted to convince her. I said "We think alike."
Oh, my dear," she said. "A man thinks with his dick.
Melissa Bank
#16. The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
Confucius
#17. I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
Livy
#18. I feel sorry for the man who marries you ... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Harold Brodkey
#19. A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
#20. It doesn't matter what he thinks of himself. Sure he's egotistic, so what? It takes that kind of ego to make a man attempt a thing like this. I've seen enough of men like him to know that mixed in with that pompousness and self-assertion is a goddamned good measure of uncertainty and fear.
Daniel Keyes
#21. I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#22. I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#23. I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
Eugenio Montale
#24. We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
Frederick William Faber
#25. To begin with, we must protest against a habit of quoting and paraphrasing at the same time. When a man is discussing what Jesus meant, let him state first of all what He said, not what the man thinks He would have said if he had expressed Himself more clearly.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
Austin O'Malley
#29. A free man thinks of death least of all things, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
Baruch Spinoza
#30. Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.
Oliver Goldsmith
#31. Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.
Charles Bukowski
#33. Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Michael Leunig
#34. Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.
Rene Daumal
#35. A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
Fran Lebowitz
#36. Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.
Etienne Gilson
#37. Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache ... whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
George Orwell
#38. When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.
Joseph P. Farrell
#39. It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ...
Ellen Glasgow
#40. If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.
Plato
#41. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
Hesiod
#43. Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy Sinatra
#44. A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.
Ann Landers
#45. An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#46. Force," Simone Weil wrote, "is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates."2
Chris Hedges
#47. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
C.S. Lewis
#48. A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
Chauncey Depew
#49. A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#50. If you find a man who trusts you, who isn't afraid, who sees you for who you are, and if it feels like he knows you for who it is that you simply are, and thinks all of that is beautiful; know that you have found a rare thing.
C. JoyBell C.
