Top 88 Lying To Ourselves Quotes
#1. In lying to others we end up lying to ourselves. We deny the importance of an event, or a person, and thus deprive ourselves of a part of our lives. Or we use one piece of the past or present to screen out another. Thus we lose faith even in our own lives.
Adrienne Rich
#2. By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#3. We are lying to ourselves when we're not contradicting ourselves.
Marty Rubin
#4. Me - not wanting to admit that I just let him use me again.
Him - not wanting to admit that it was more than just sex.
Both of us lying to ourselves.
Colleen Hoover
#5. If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy
Amy Lee
#6. We become our own opposition when we accept the following: procrastinating, lying to ourselves, comparing ourselves to others, and having self-doubts - in short, anything that gets in the way of our becoming who we were created to be.
Steve Harvey
#7. When what we say doesn't match how we act, we are lying to ourselves.
Cortney S. Warren
#8. The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
Brennan Manning
#10. It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.
Marcel Proust
#11. Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
Charles De Lint
#12. Jean Laffite was a sexy bad boy with a gentleman's manners and an air of barely suppressed danger. Every girl's secret dreamboat in other words. We always say we want a nice, hardworking, decent guy but we're lying to ourselves. - DJ Jaco
Suzanne Johnson
#13. This is the art of rationalization, and we do it so often that some researchers believe that a majority of our time is spent rationalizing. That is, we go around much of the day lying to ourselves about why we are doing most of the things we do. When
Hugh Howey
#14. In fact, lying to ourselves may be the most dangerous thing in the world because we live our truth whether we are honest about it or not.
Cortney S. Warren
#15. We never know what is going to happen, do we? Life is always throwing us this way and that. That's where the adventure is. Not knowing where you'll end up or how you'll fare. It's all a mystery, and when we say any different, we're just lying to ourselves. Tell me, when have you felt most alive?
Eowyn Ivey
#17. We are lying to ourselves and to each other.
Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying.
I am a bad person.
I don't care. I don't care what you are.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#18. There is a fine line deep within the mind that makes self-belief and confidence, the defining elements of success and failure in any circumstance. How we learn to activate them without running the risk of lying to ourselves is the key that unlocks the superhuman lying dormant within us.
David Amerland
#19. Too often we compare our weaknesses with other people's strengths only to find ourselves coming up short." We compare our worst to someone else's best which sets us up to sound like failures. Essentially, we begin lying to ourselves.
Ruth Schwenk
#20. Regardless of how far a person runs, a lie will eventually catch up to them.
Donald L. Hicks
#21. Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we're a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.
Joseph Campbell
#22. How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.
Julia Alvarez
#23. Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic.
Anthony Marais
#24. For us to have great and impressive increase, we need to do than just lying down and wishing for the best. We need to get off the bed, lay demands on ourselves and exert enough pressure, as much as necessary to get the kind increase we need
Sunday Adelaja
#25. The responsibility for change ... lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
Alvin Toffler
#26. Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.
George Deukmejian
#27. The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
Bruce Lee
#28. We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.
Wilhelm II
#29. Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.
George Vaillant
#30. We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.
Marianne Williamson
#31. Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
Sogyal Rinpoche
#32. If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?
Thomas Jefferson
#33. We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bigger than you think. More complicated than you think ...
Charles Yu
#34. Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.
Anthony Marais
#35. As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
Ann Druyan
#36. As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.
Dean Koontz
#38. We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.
Suzanne Rindell
#39. I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us ...
Bernadette Roberts
#40. How do we break this cycle of adding to the unconsciousness on the planet? The answer lies in seeing that our true nature consists ONLY of love, and so that is ALL we have to give [and see] when we know ourselves as that ...
Mike Jeffries
#41. The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.
Max Beckmann
#43. Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.
Shannon A. Thompson
#44. In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.
Khalil Gibran
#46. Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.
Oswald Chambers
#47. In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.
Derrick Jensen
#48. We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.
Kevin Costner
#49. There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.
Martin Luther
#50. We are each shaped from our birth, not only by the blood and inheritance that lies behind us, but also by those we love and by whom we are loved in turn, by the knowledge given to our thirsty minds, to the learning of ourselves.
Andre Norton
#51. We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.
Chris Matakas
#52. Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
Martin Luther
#53. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.
Mark Cuban
#55. That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.
R. K. Milholland
#56. Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.
Joyce Meyer
#57. Britain could make her own way in the world, outside the EU, if we chose to do so. So could any other Member State. But the question we will have to ask ourselves is this: is that the very best future for our country? We will have to weigh carefully where our true national interest lies.
David Cameron
#58. We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children.
Michael Specter
#59. When men and women are loyal to ourselves and others, when we love justice, we understand fully the myriad ways in which lying diminishes and erodes the possibility of meaningful, caring connection, that it stands in the way of love.
Bell Hooks
#60. The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
Woodrow Wilson
#61. In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
Epictetus
#62. In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here
to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
Charles Caleb Colton
#63. We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart ... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together ... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.
Helen Hayes
#64. We don't lie to protect the other person. We lie to protect ourselves from the consequences. We lie because we don't want to deal with our own feelings. We lie because we don't want things to change. Not by our hand. So a wall starts to build.
Elisa Marie Hopkins
#65. Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
Andrei Tarkovsky
#67. Who do you think is lying to us?" Shevek demanded.
Placid, Bedap met his gaze. "Who, brother? Who but ourselves?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#68. Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.
Marvin J. Ashton
#69. Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.
Claude M. Bristol
#70. We often tell ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, when we could be doing the same lying down in bed, face to face and naked.
Ian McEwan
#71. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
Dianna Hardy
#72. Whether you're transgender or not, most of us get to a point in our lives where we can no longer lie to ourselves.
Laverne Cox
#73. There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.
David Hewson
#74. As old lies are laid to rest, new ones sprout from their ashes, as deadly as their ancestors
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#75. The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands
Sun Tzu
#76. The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.
Maya Tiwari
#77. It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.
Steven Pressfield
#78. We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
Aldous Huxley
#79. We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#80. Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.
Watchman Nee
#81. The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
Marianne Williamson
#82. For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.
Milan Kundera
#83. We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
Elena Ferrante
#84. We are contaminated with the idea of "winning" and defeating others. Indoctrinated by parents, schools, and our ubiquitous media, hammered with a lie: The only way to be truly triumphant is if we are dominant before supposed "competitors" rather than beautiful before ourselves.
Daniel Gillies
#85. The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
Tenzin Palmo
#86. It's going to be okay, Eric," Urte said, helping me sit up.
I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours." (Eric.)
Shannon A. Thompson
#87. The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.
Merle Shain
#88. How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer?
Marcel Proust
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