Quotes with ourselves

Quotes 101 till 120 of 578.

  • Oscar Wilde Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Dorothy Serrity God the almighty and all terrible, who expects us to do something to help ourselves.
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  • Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alexander Pope Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Traherne Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Aristotle Happiness depends upon ourselves.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Tryon Edwards Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Osborne Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Brian Tracy How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Alexander Pope How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alice Walker How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Eric Hoffer However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Riley However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Brooke Shields I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Karl Marx I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Amy Hempel I am not quite myself, I think. But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
    Rick Moody (2007) 236
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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