Ourselves Quotes

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

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

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

Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

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.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

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.

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.