We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Cesar Chavez

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Chester W. Nimitz

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

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
Willem de Kooning

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young

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

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

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

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.
Robert Anthony

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Martha Graham

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

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
Thurgood Marshall

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Aesop

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Miguel de Unamuno

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
Protagoras

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel