Man selbst / Oneself Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Man selbst / Oneself:

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it. Donald Johanson

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

John Grierson

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

George Pierce Baker

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Baldwin

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Loren Eiseley

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

Evita Peron

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Bodhidharma

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Robert Fitzgerald

Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.

Mary Roach

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.

Tom Skerritt

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Georges Courteline

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

Max Born

What someone wears is an expression of oneself. When you're just comfortable with what you're wearing, you don't have new thoughts. I want people to feel something and think about who they are.

Rei Kawakubo

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Thomas Aquinas

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

John Fowles

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Richard Eyre

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Rose Kennedy

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Knut Hamsun

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

Gustav Mahler

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

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

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

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Edwin Markham

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

Gertrude Stein

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

Julian Sands

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Jean Dubuffet

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Donald Johanson

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Max Frisch

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

Clara Schumann

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

Edward James Olmos

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

D. H. Lawrence

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Gerald Brenan

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Emil Cioran

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Arne Jacobsen