Oneself Quotes

Reminiscence and self-parody are part of remaining true to oneself.

– John Updike

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

– Bodhidharma

Everyone writes in Tolstoy’s shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

– A. N. Wilson

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

– Maurice Chevalier

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

– Dayananda Saraswati

One creates oneself.

– Grace Jones

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

– Edsger Dijkstra

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

– Michael Novak

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

– Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

– Julian Sands

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

– Konrad Adenauer

Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

– Laurie Colwin

There are things one must do for oneself.

– Robert Mugabe

Envy is an insult to oneself.

– Yevgeny Yevtushenko

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

– Soren Kierkegaard

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.

– Sarah Bernhardt