Ourselves Quotes

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

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

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

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

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.