Ourselves Quotes

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

We do not exist for ourselves.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

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

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.