1,328 quotes found
“Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.”
“Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.”
“Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?”
“I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.”
“I am I plus my circumstances.”
“It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.”
“Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.”
“I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
“In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.”
“There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.”
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
“I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.”
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”
“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.”
“If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”
“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”
“If I am not for myself who will be?”
“The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.”
“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.”
“Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.”
