#oneself

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#golden rule #image #incomplete #leave #oneself

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#any #belief #bricks #building #important

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ↗

— Robert Collier

#believe #comes #dominating #false #mind

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

— Georges Courteline

#life #necessary #oneself #other #people

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#class #culture #how #matter #mature

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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#americas #columbus #conquer #discover #great

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#harder #honorable #more #oneself #path

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others. ↗

— Moliere

#condemning #deal #good #good deal #look

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#much #oneself #perfecting

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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