Browsing Topic Best Oneself Quotes

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one’s own.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

I wish I could show you…the astonishing light of your own being.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

The will to be oneself is heroism

For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

When a man’s struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness