Quotes with ourselves

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  • Alice Munro Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Immanuel Kant Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Barbara Jordan More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Watson Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
    USA Today
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Lewis Thomas Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Anna Sewell My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature gives us... passions and desires suitable to our present state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves...
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bertrand Russell Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Kofi Annan No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.
    (2006)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Josh Billings No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Cyril Connolly No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Oscar Wilde None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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