Top 625 Himself Quotes

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can’t cover himself with words, he can’t create a wall.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

When a lion doesn’t get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what’s wrong with that?

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

I consider myself an ordinary Muslim who is constantly working to put himself in the framework established by the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. I study the works of experts of jurisprudence, Koranic commentary, hadith commentary, and Sufism.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely.

The world is… the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we’ve got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

My father grew up in Levittown, L.I., in the first tract housing built for G.I.’s. His dad had stormed the beaches of Omaha and died when my father was very young. My dad had to raise himself, pretty much.

In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.

There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don’t find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen seated by his goods, absorbed in the morning paper – probably balancing himself on one leg of his chair, with a spittoon by his side.

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as president. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.