Himself Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world,

but no one thinks of changing himself.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words!

His real life is led in his head,

and is known to none but himself.

When the white man governs himself,

that is self government;

but when he governs himself and also governs another man,

that is more than self

government

that is despotism.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,

or to get all the credit for doing it.

My religion consists of a humble admiration

of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself

in the slight details we are able to perceive with

our frail and feeble mind.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science

that by acting on the human mind

it has overcome man's insecurity

before himself and before nature.

Every man has his own courage,

and is betrayed because he seeks in himself

the courage of other persons.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions.

It is not putting up a mask.

Each time an actor acts he does not hide;

he exposes himself.

The way for a young man to rise

is to improve himself in every way he can,

never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life

that no one can sincerely try to help another

without helping himself.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing.

I admire him.

I pity the creature who does not work,

at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I really believe that

everyone has a talent,

ability, or skill that

he can mine to support

himself and to

succeed in life.

Every man supposes himself

not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing

off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you.

It is different with us.

Here it is every fellow for himself,

or he doesn't get there.

The reason why the world lacks unity,

and lies broken and in heaps,

is, because man is disunited with himself.

A man is never more truthful than

when he acknowledges himself a liar.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended;

yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

You cannot teach a man anything;

you can only help him find it within himself.

When a person cannot deceive himself

the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

He who makes a beast of himself

gets rid of the pain of being a man.