Ourselves Quotes

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

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

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

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.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.