Himself Quotes
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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
Richard Wilbur
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The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.
David Zindell
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.
Cesare Pavese
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In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
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He was there. He heard our opinions. He did not object or defend himself.
Michael Baden
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In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.
Wilder Penfield
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I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.
George Frideric Handel
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
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Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.
William Romaine
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A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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President Obama is going to have to run against himself. In tough times, nobody can defeat himself.
Bill Clinton
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It's nice when you are with a guy who can find the humor in touch situations and be comfortable enough in his own skin that he can laugh at himself.
Mikaela Hoover
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Mercy begins with a deep awareness of one’s own need for it. Whereas Alinsky first sees injustice in others, the man of mercy first sees sin within himself.
Charles J. Chaput
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Gentle to others, to himself severe.
Samuel Rogers
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Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.
Paul Hoffman
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Just bought himself a new set of clubs a couple of months
Carolyn Keene
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Richard Steele
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The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
Wilder Penfield
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It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he must first of all rule himself.
Winthrop W. Aldrich
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What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to.
Saul Bellow
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
Seneca the Younger