Quotes with ourselves

  • People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
  • While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
  • I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
  • The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
  • I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
  • Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
  • We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
  • When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
  • And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.
  • We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • J. Adams The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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  • Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Arnold Toynbee As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Joseph Stowell Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Anthony Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl Sagan If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
    Source: Ann Druyan (2011) 354
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • William Shakespeare It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • Joseph Addison Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Eric Hoffer No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Marley None but ourselves can free our minds.
    Source: Redemption Song
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Sir John Lubbock 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.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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