Ourselves Quotes

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

I know a couple of my friends - quite a few - there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as we need to and renew our interest and ourselves.