Themselves Quotes

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?