Quotes about Ourselves

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from 'justifying' ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Sophocles

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Michel de Montaigne

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

Sri Chinmoy

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Ronald Reagan

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

William Cobbett

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Matthew Arnold

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves -- at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others -- at what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Bill Hicks

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Eric Hoffer

It's an opportunity for us to create a niche for ourselves.

Brian O'grady

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

M. Scott Peck

It's decadent. We don't take enough time to treat ourselves to a place like that.

Velvet Hammerschmidt

This is a good feeling. A good feeling that we can help other people and we can do it ourselves.

Raymond Tomaszewski

For a brokerage firm, to be competitive in the marketplace, we had to differentiate ourselves.

Mark Ford

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Jane Porter

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Henry David Thoreau

Somebody somewhere is looking up to us as an example, and if we don't care about what we're doing to ourselves we should care about the path we're leading them down.

Rick Bender

...it's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself not for everyone else....

Mariska Hargitay

People try to say it can be a bad influence, like they try to say with video games and movies. However, we say from the beginning you have to be 18 or older. You know what you're going to get with us because we've labeled ourselves from the start.

Ron Jeremy

This is not a government contract. This is something we're just doing ourselves.

Lance Cottrell

We look at ourselves not just as a job here, but also as mentors, as role models.

George Robinson

What is compelling about this movement is that we?re running the show on our own, by ourselves.

Chris Magnuson

We are doing well in all three directions; let us recommit ourselves, in 2006 as we did in 2004, to those same three matters . . . .

Sir Roy Trotman

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield

All of our losses have been because we partly beat ourselves and partly because we just failed to step up to the challenge. We have the talent. We just have to do it.

Jason Fife

It's not that we're content with splitting, it's just that we're happy we're getting so much out of ourselves. Basically it's just keep working at it till one of us doesn't cut it.

Katie Wright

The Boeing Company wasn't lying down. We just allowed ourselves to step back from our customers too far.

Scott Carson

We knew on paper that it was going to be a battle between the University of Houston and ourselves, and it was a good battle. Our kids competed exceedingly well. We just didn't have enough.

Jim Bevan

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

Booth Tarkington

It helps us being the underdog. We have nothing to lose. Nobody expects us to win except ourselves.

Daniel Ruffin

Food is the most basic forum for discussing things like love and the absence of love; how we hurt ourselves and how we heal ourselves.

Laura Benanti

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

Betty White

We will seize the opportunity by educating ourselves, by working twice as hard.

Francisco Flores

I feel like we played really well. We gave ourselves so many opportunities. We shot two-under par today. It was just a really good match.

Beth Daniel

You know, we're wanting to brand our community and develop an identity for ourselves. What better way to do it?

Wade Jones

Our mind protects ourselves by checking out.

Kelly Anderson

We are very proud of ourselves, very proud of our performance. It feels wonderful to move on to the final round.

Pedro Lazo

If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

John Lubbock

We are driven to prove ourselves.

Meredith Hoover

I think we played better in the last three games, ... Even though we lost Tuesday (in New Jersey) you could see the improvement. We are beginning to find ourselves and be more comfortable out there.

Luke Ridnour

I think we've drawn a lot of attention to ourselves.

Rebecca Brown

We have to ask ourselves anew the larger question: What surveillance power should the government have? And to what extent should the government be allowed to manage the development of technology to embody its surveillance capability?

Daniel Solove

We just wanted to give ourselves a chance. What we're more concerned with is 'How do we get better.' We don't have a lot of experience. If you're even going to stay close with a team like this, you have to make shots.

Bill Herrion

I'm thrilled that we have the opportunity to align ourselves with a talented rookie such as A.J..

Doug Stringer

We've been killing ourselves working for hours on end for decades, caught up in the work-and-spend dynamic.

Marc Freedman

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

Tom Mullen

Those of us who have always considered ourselves 'liberal' and 'tolerant' have discovered the prejudices and stereotypes which each of us harbor. This has certainly been a learning experience for us, and we are still learning.

Michael Cooper

We definitely need to overcome the fact that we don't have any divers and we can't secure any points from that. We're going to have to make up those points ourselves.

Miguel Molina

We're in the top 10 in a lot of statistics. But we're still hungry. We've got a lot of no-names, so we're building names for ourselves.

Leroy Hill

We played 40 minutes of solid hockey, we came back and then we embarrassed ourselves for 20 minutes. That's not the way we play offensively, defensively or in the neutral zone. And everyone's accountable.

Kyle Mclaren

At halftime we got down on ourselves but we kept talking to the kids telling them to keep their heads up and keep plugging.

Jeff Haile

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Robert Fisk

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

Ignorance is a necessary condition of human happiness, and it must be owned that in most cases we fulfill it well. We know almost nothing about ourselves; absolutely nothing about our neighbors. Ignorance constitutes our peace of mind; self- deception our felicity.

Anatole France

We're placing ourselves in harm's way more. The more people who live on coast lines, in canyons in California, on fault lines, the more it's going to cost you.

Beverly Cigler

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

Katherine Mansfield

We should think more laterally and ask ourselves, do we need a Friday session?

Pat Symonds

Yes, if we were prepared to be honest we might rid ourselves of much self deception.

Moliere

We didn't establish ourselves in the second half. They really asserted themselves in the second half and we didn't. We played catch-up the rest of the half.

Mark Nore

We'd have to understand what the community and the city wanted to see there before we made any plans ourselves.

Allan Mackenzie

You can't let down against a good team like Klein Oak. We had a great effort against a powerhouse team, who may just be the next state champions. I was proud of the way we handled ourselves.

Adrian Benziger

I didn't pay too much attention to the table when we were at the top and I'm not now either. There's no point in thinking, 'if we beat them and they lose to them,' we just need to win some games for ourselves and whatever else happens will happen.

Karl Brown

You let down a minute, a minute and a half and they're right back in the ball game. I don't think it's so much what they did, I think it's what we did to ourselves. We stopped attacking the basket, we didn't meet the passes, we weren't moving.

Inger Hodgson

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Suzanne Fields

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Imannuel Kant

Our clients are looking at the gamut of planning issues, engineering issues, surveying, environmental planning and landscape architecture. We bill ourselves as a full-service consulting company.

Richard Callahan

The next couple weeks are going to be really rigorous - we're going to be working so hard that we aren't going to allow ourselves to lose.

Bijan Hejazi

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

Cynthia Heimel

Now, because of the growth in the practice and new clients that have dealings with the city, we found ourselves on a collision course.

Hamilton Osborne

We do not view ourselves as DP World employees. We are P&O employees.

Frank Fogarty

We've gotten a lot of calls in support of continuing the boy choir. And we've had a couple of meetings ourselves (about) how we're going to put this plan together. But we're really at the early stages of this.

Michelle Saito

This game is important for us in terms of respect and in terms of establishing ourselves in AAA, ... We understand that.

Joe Thompson

I think it's an unfair assessment to say we're contradicting ourselves. We're not the ones making the ads.

Kent Barrett

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

Joseph Goebbels

Regions is a big contributor to this community, and there have been some changes in the community. We just feel like this would be the time to reassert ourselves.

Scott Reed

We've been beating ourselves. It's time to beat the other team.

Brent Crews

We have one more goal and that's to win a state championship. We wanted to give ourselves a chance to reach that goal and we did.

Larry Goodnature

We are being judged by a new yardstick: not just how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how we handle ourselves and each other.

Daniel Goleman

It's only Game 7 of 82, ... We've got time to redeem ourselves.

Ian Laperriere

We just didn't play a very good game today. We kind of beat ourselves.

Patrick Murray

We can't play like that and expect to beat anybody. We've got to take a long look at ourselves. Not by any means are we going to hit the panic button but we've got to figure out if we want to make a run or if we want to play like that.

Lee Goren

We found ourselves walking downtown nearly every day last year. That's how we decided we wanted to live downtown.

Debbie Metz

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Dr. Rollo May

We should have done the Savings Bill at least six months ago, also giving ourselves the possibility of changing governor. It was a political mistake which left the ball in the magistrates' court.

Umberto Bossi