Ourselves Quotes

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

I would obviously like to have been arriving in Valencia with the title still up for grabs, let's not kid ourselves, but even though Valentino has won, the season is not over for me.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

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