Quotes About Himself

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!

The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

If ... it would be a gain to any man to hang himself, I certainly think that it would be of the very greatest advantage to a tyrant to do so; for he alone is profited neither by retaining his troubles nor by laying them aside.

He wraps it around him. It's a good fit, it smells leafy and fresh. He would make a good tailor. He has made something, made something of himself. His mother would be pleased at last. Oh God. Is there still mother after death?

I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before.

Standing behind the desk,checking out an appointment book,is Mr.Asshole himself,Vincent.

What did I glean ?" "I'm not trying to be flippant. Just - did he tell you anything about himself?" "He hates Sesame Street ." "We'll need more than that when we're eventually put on the stand for this.

Or perhaps Bill just wanted to be spared the inconvenience of doing it himself.

racket, terrorized by a threat against himself and his

The fact that Kristi was an attractive young woman had nothing to do with his enthusiastic speculations, he told himself.

Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.

My father told me to follow your teachings. But you argue that the ends justify the means. Doesn't each generation need to learn anew that fighting evil with evil serves only to make one evil himself?

He's calling us to the Great Exchange--the one where we ccan never lose. As we trade the "many things" that make us anxious, He gives us the "one thing" that calms our hearts. Himself.

entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself

Conscience is that piece of Himself that God puts into everyone,

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

He might be a dead man. He might sometimes find himself grown very tired. But he could not find it in himself to regret the circumstances of his death, no matter how unusual.