Oneself Quotes

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

As her words became poetry, the poetry became a song. As her heart became his, he became one with her.

If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

It’s nice to get off the couch, throw the clothes on, add a little make-up and go back to work, every once in a while.

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?

One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.