Quotes of: Ourselves Keyword

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

William Hazlitt

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

Wallace Shawn

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Eliza Haywood

I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.

Andie MacDowell

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

Adam Rich

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

David Ansen

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Eric Sevareid

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

E. O. Wilson

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Frank Pittman

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Fay Weldon

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

Cyrus the Great

No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.

Celia Gilbert

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

C.S. Lewis

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Henry David Thoreau

We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

Ivan Turgenev

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

John Avlon

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

David Strathairn