Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Self Esteem

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  • Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

    1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).
  • Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

    "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part VI, Chapter 4, p. 471), 1866.
  • They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社
  • Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

    Men  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

    Men  
    "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.
  • When reason fails, the devil helps!

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing
  • Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.330, Google Publishing
  • We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

  • Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.452, Google Publishing
  • What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

    Men  
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

    Believe  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.635, Modern Library
  • I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.321, Google Publishing
  • Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

    Men  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.24, Google Publishing
  • Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing
  • The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.510, Google Publishing
  • Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing
  • It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.235, Vintage
  • Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

    "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.
  • Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications
  • If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社
  • Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing
  • If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

    "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.
  • To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

    "Crime and Punishment".
  • They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.535, Google Publishing
  • People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

    Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.364, Modern Library
  • originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

  • What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.61, Google Publishing
  • Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

    "Crime and Punishment".
  • Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

    Men  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.198, Google Publishing
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