Quotes of: Themselves Keyword

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

LIFE

But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.

The Lost Girl

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!

Leaders' Watchwords

Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!

Leaders' Watchwords

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, .

The Shockwave Rider

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

Steal Across the Sky

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

Starshine

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group.

Team Of One: We Believe

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Who is willing to suffer for a Savior they won't even trouble themselves to learn about?

Theological Fitness: Why We Need a Fighting Faith

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Orthodoxy

Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.

Performance Anomalies

it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

Pippi Goes on Board

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Pretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

Pensées

Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.

The Pilgrim's Progress

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

Personalism