Ourselves Quotes

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

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 of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.