Oneself Quotes
If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.
ZoroasterZoroaster One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
John BunyanJohn Bunyan Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
Guy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LucretiusLucretius The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.
John C. MaxwellJohn C. Maxwell I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don’t have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.
Maria SharapovaMaria Sharapova To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero I’m not a box kind of gal, so stop trying to make me fit in one.
Melody LeeMelody Lee We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
ZhuangziZhuangzi Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
Sonia SotomayorSonia Sotomayor It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.
ChanakyaChanakya