Ourselves Quotes

Ourselves Quote of the day

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.

Because the state can no longer protect us from crime, it wants to take away from us the means of protecting ourselves. This is the logic of gun control.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is really an ever-widening entry into life.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?

Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

We only get better by pushing ourselves.

Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.

And we have got to go back - I will tell you what we have got to do. We have got to go back to the small disciplines that really make a difference in defining ourselves as a profession. And we will.

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.