Ourselves Quotes

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.

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 .

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

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.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

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.

But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

We do not exist for ourselves.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.