Ourselves Quotes

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.