Oneself Quotes - Page 9

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.