Themselves Quotes

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are not business people. They're fans who've gotten themselves shops.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.