Ourselves Quotes

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
Christina Aguilera

Keep, Makes, Pretending

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
David Herbert Lawrence

End, Getting, Somewhere

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Lord Byron

Nothing, Fortune, Depended

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
Louis C. K.

Live, Evil, Suffering

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.
Charles Stanley

Fight, Children, Against

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis

War, Night, Mad

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
Dorothy Height

Life, Strong, Important

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion

Great, Power, Give

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson

Accept, Choice, Growth

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Alexander Pope

Grow, Partial, Observer

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander Pope

Men, Honor, Praise

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster

Down, Path, Books

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Love, America, Nation

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

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.
Michel Foucault

Age, Power, Knowledge

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Defeat, Street, Triumph

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan

Good, Tell, Nation

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
Brian Tracy

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer

Down, Pleasure, Later

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Charles Lamb

Men, Nothing, Another

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Thurgood Marshall

Humanity, Pay, Highest

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier

Happiness, Find, Easy

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.
Cesar Chavez

Men, Honest, Lives

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
Alice Walker

Love, Almost, Deeply

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

Nature, Greatest, Human

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

Friends, Honest, Shall

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Gail Sheehy

Life, Die, Before

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Thought, Others, Beginning

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather

Single, Dark, Sometimes

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum

Peace, Others, Moral

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