I’ve heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves – how gravely we fall short.

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the...

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we’ll come up with some scary stuff.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

When we are content and secure in ourselves, it leaves with having no desire to set ourselves up as superior to anyone else. When we simply celebrate our own individuality we allow others to do...

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally...

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates – we’re mostly out for ourselves.

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

We’re better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always...

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.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay...

Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don’t know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists....

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can’t get mad at what we do, because then they’re just making of themselves.

The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into war. It is the responsibility of Congress to deliberate and consult with the...

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been...

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

When we are honest – that’s my saying – if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

The greatest love is self love. When we work toward our inner self and self worth, that, is the best gift we give to ourselves.

A lot of us think we’re invincible… but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you...

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to...

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and...

All over the world, people are looking at India and saying ‘wow’, and that’s because we have begun to say ‘wow’ ourselves.

The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

I don’t think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level...

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

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

Why did I sign up for this?”Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the...

I feel like it’s important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.

You know, there’s a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it’s misnamed. We’re not so much trying to help people as we’re trying to help ourselves. So let’s be clear...

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves – which is a terrible idea.

The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually – to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves...

As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types...

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this – attack ourselves – every hour of our lives.

Every African-American I know has two faces. There’s the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.