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Quotes about oneself




Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Jean de La Fontaine - Le Chartier embourbé / 






He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 






Men at some time are masters of their fates;
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar / 






One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






I went in search of myself.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 






We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 






How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dalí / 






My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method / 






Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Laozi / 






The art, my children, it is to be absolutely oneself.
Paul Verlaine / 






What youth found and must find outside, the man of life's afternoon must find within himself.
Carl Gustav Jung / 






Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Gustav Jung / 






A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 






No man is despised by another unless he is first despised by himself.
Seneca - De Consolatione ad Helviam Matrem / 






Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
Alan Watts / 






'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn / 






The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 






Learn to know yourself, and descend into yourself.
Pierre Corneille - Cinna / 






Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts / 






It is much easier to obey your superior than to command yourself; and when you can do whatever you want, it's not easy to want only what you have to.
Louis XIV / 






The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel / 






This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / 



This above all: to thine own self be true.




Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde / 






A man always describes himself unconsciously whenever he describes anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw / 






I cannot live, experience, think, value, and act in any world which is not in some sense in me, and derives its meaning and truth from me.
Edmund Husserl / 






Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama






For the confirmation of my identity I depend entirely upon other people.
Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism / 










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