1,328 quotes found
“For they can conquer who believe they can.”
“I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.”
“When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.”
“Doubt whom you will but never yourself.”
“No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.”
“Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.”
“One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.”
“Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers An...”
“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
“As simple as it sounds we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices by making the most of the talents we've been given.”
“You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.”
“Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.”
“Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.”
“Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.”
“Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.”
“We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.”
“Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.”
“When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live.”
“If you do not ask yourself what it is you know you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.”
“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
