Oneself Quotes - Page 31

• The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Soul, Purpose, Deeds

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• One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

  Chuck Knox

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Sports, Warrior

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• How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

  Anna Freud

  Judging, Doe, Able

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• In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence
  — as not-bound to life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Order, Risk, Facts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

  Socrates

  Discredit

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• I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

  James Dickey

  Thinking, Giving, Able

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• Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

  Jules Verne

  Pride, Men, British

  Jules Verne, William Butcher (2005). “The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras”, p.290, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have changed nothing, my style of play is still that of a child. I know that above all it is my job and that I should approach it in another way, but one must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. It is imperative one plays to amuse oneself, to be happy. That is what children do and I do the same thing.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Jobs, Children

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• On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

  Georg Simmel

  Hands, Personality, Swim

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• One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forget Everything, Forget

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Appreciation, Pride, Vanity

  "Parerga and Paralipomena". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer. Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1, Ch. 4, § 2, 1851.

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• The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.

  Karen Horney

  Inspirational, Self, Goal

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.242, Routledge

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• The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Drama, Selfish, Add

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• It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.

  Paul Dirac

  Successful, Discovery, Goes On

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• Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

  Max Frisch

  Accepting, Harder

  Max Frisch (1958). “I'm not Stiller”, Vintage

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• At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

  Robin Lee

  Lord, Best Place, Ends

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• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward
  destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fate, Destiny, What Matters

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

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• The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself. The only thing that counts is curiosity. For me personally, this is what creativity is about. It will express itself less in the fear of doing the same thing over again than in the desire not to go where one has already been.

  Gueorgui Pinkhassov

  Running, Lying, Creativity

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• Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Days Gone By, Gone, Virtue

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• Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

  Milan Kundera

  Talent, Disgusting

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• Belief in oneself is required for healing.

  Caroline Myss

  Healing, Belief

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2013

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• Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Self, Growth

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.192, Harmony

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• Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

  Gunter Grass

  Hurt, Lying, Different

  "Gunter Grass speaks to Paris Review about art of fiction". Paris Review Interview, www.newsbangladesh.com. April 14, 2015.

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• Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

  Otto Weininger

  Ethics, Logic, Duty

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.159, Рипол Классик

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