Ourselves Quotes
1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors
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Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
— Marian McPartland
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In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or…
— Paul von Hindenburg
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how…
— Pierre Charron
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Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
— William Law
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We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
— Dorothy Dix
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Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
— Martin Luther
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
— Plato
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Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
— John Webster
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
— Buddha
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
— Hale White
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
— Barbara Jordan
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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it…
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
— Ethel Percy Andrus
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We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
— David Ansen
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Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
— Sun Tzu
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To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also…
— Marsha Sinetar
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Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and…
— Marsha Sinetar
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We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob…
— James Harvey Robinson
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one…
— Gail Sheehy
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Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.
— Polly Berrien Berends
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The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
— Anna Brackett
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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
— Junius
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Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits…
— Alvar N. C. de Vaca
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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our…
— Bernhard von Bulow
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