Ourselves Quotes

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

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.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.