(82 quotes found)
“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others”
Buddha
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely”
Carl Gustav Jung
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.”
Dalai Lama
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
Clifton Fadiman
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.”
Chamfort
“Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.”
Eduardo Chillida
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
Eldridge Cleaver
