Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
A. N. Wilson
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
Adam Mansbach
I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.
Adam West
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
Aimee Mullins
What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.
Alain de Botton
In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
Alan Sugar
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase
What makes Reddit special is that people feel free to express themselves. Where we want to draw the line is where that feeling of being able to express oneself freely starts to infringe on someone feeling like they can express themselves.
Alexis Ohanian
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
Alfred Kazin
I totally have the ability to laugh at myself. I don't think one should take oneself seriously, ever. As long as you are not hurting my sentiments by revealing personal details or talking badly about my family, I'm absolutely fine.
Alia Bhatt
It's essential to feel beautiful to oneself. Not in an egotistical way, but in a self-loving way.
Amber Valletta
There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.
Ananya Birla
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
Andre Breton
What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.
Anish Kapoor
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.
Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
My team at Pittsburgh is the greatest example of unselfishness and giving of oneself. They bought into that, and it's brought those kids championships, and it's brought all those kids so much glory.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.
To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
