Ourselves Quotes

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Paul Tillich

Others, Cruelty, Towards

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
William J. Clinton

Country, Families

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Sitting Bull

Power, Through, Same

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda

Good, Heart, Path

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
Bill Watterson

Live, Different, Stand

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. Rowling

Absurd, Secretly

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

Life, Happiness, True

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis

End, Stars, Movie

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving

War, Enemy, Natural

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emile M. Cioran

Others, Spot, Vanish

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Bodhidharma

Conditions, Ruled, Mortals

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Work, Women, Live

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace Mann

Nothing, Others, Undoing

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Greatest, Flow, Evils

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Walter Scott

Alone, Thinking, Gone

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

Place, Else, Somebody

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon

Small, Fact, Married

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca

Ask, Air, Clean

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.
Michelle Obama

Job, Higher, List

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
George Whitefield

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

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

Nature, Give, Understand

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Jane Addams

Life, Good, Until

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen

Strength, Fear, Strong

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Todd Rundgren

Sense, Tell, Everyone

We are all in this together, by ourselves.
Lily Tomlin

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume

Society, Alone, Friends

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Others, Pity, Evils

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
Lady Gaga

Life, Judge, Young

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