Ourselves Quotes

1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. — Joan Didion
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. — Charles Caleb Colton
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. — Janet Erskine Stuart
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide… — Bob Brown
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves… — Barbara De Angelis
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. — Albert Pike
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. — Barbara De Angelis
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. — Laozi
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise Hay
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. — Ted Shawn
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership. — Patricia Ireland
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. — Clarence Day
Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's… — Mike Huckabee
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. — George MacDonald
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. — Bernard Baruch
The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. — Ellen Goodman
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. — Fulton Oursler
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. — Pearl Bailey
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves. — Wilma Mankiller
I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a… — Samuel L. Jackson
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. — Brian Tracy
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our… — Seneca the Younger
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… — Seneca the Elder

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