Top 100 Quotes About Themselves

#1. Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Nina Easton

Quotes About Themselves #42
#2. And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a rumble of thunder. Lightning arced across the stage. A small group of hairy men with helmets sat looking very pleased with themselves, and raised their glasses to him.

Douglas Adams

Quotes About Themselves #79
#3. Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Robert Mugabe

Quotes About Themselves #212
#4. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotes About Themselves #322
#5. Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at that baby and says 'Oh, you're so wonderful,' that baby just bursts with feeling good about themselves.

T. Berry Brazelton

Quotes About Themselves #402
#6. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.

Nathaniel Branden

Quotes About Themselves #437
#7. All girls are beautiful, and when they say they're ugly they only lie to themselves, for it's impossible for them to be ugly.

Damon Willis

Quotes About Themselves #805
#8. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Quotes About Themselves #944
#9. Eyes are very appealing to me. I also like somebody who is interested in a career for themselves and can treat me like a normal person.

Brian Littrell

Quotes About Themselves #1025
#10. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

Quotes About Themselves #1026
#11. There are some great teachers who have had great students, but they themselves can't play a note. I don't understand it, because the most I learned from my teacher was just hearing him play.

Joshua Bell

Quotes About Themselves #1044
#12. Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

Paulo Coelho

Quotes About Themselves #1278
#13. In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates.

Jim Hunt

Quotes About Themselves #1403
#14. The happier I am, the better my skin is. Any woman knows when they are over exerting themselves, whether it is emotionally or physically, you can see it on your face.

Kate Hudson

Quotes About Themselves #1426
#15. So long as you minded your manners and kept your weapons concealed, they let you enter and leave in peace. Those who broke the one house rule of "No Spill Blood" quickly found themselves leaving in pieces.' (Gallagher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Quotes About Themselves #1479
#16. When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We didn't want them to be caricatures of themselves. We wanted them to live and breathe, and grow with the audience and with us.

Jon Hurwitz

Quotes About Themselves #1489
#17. There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

D.H. Lawrence

Quotes About Themselves #1535
#18. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

Orrin Woodward

Quotes About Themselves #1845
#19. What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.

Nouriel Roubini

Quotes About Themselves #1946
#20. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Havelock Ellis

Quotes About Themselves #2154
#21. Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

Annie Lennox

Quotes About Themselves #2174
#22. A women's college is a fine idea, and I hope it continues to flourish. Even if most of its students go on to dedicate themselves to hearth and home, their children will benefit for their mothers' educations.

Meredith Duran

Quotes About Themselves #2210
#23. Loving someone who can't love themselves is like pouring water into a bowl with a hole in the bottom. It can never stay filled.

Brownell Landrum

Quotes About Themselves #2257
#24. I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

Joe Nichols

Quotes About Themselves #2776
#25. Authenticity is rare. Either people don't know who they are, or they're afraid to share themselves with the world - I

Kim Holden

Quotes About Themselves #2810
#26. Did you know that more than 65% of the people who label themselves "born again Christians" seldom or never read the Bible? Of those who do read the Bible, did you know that the majority only read it during church or organized group Bible studies?

James A. Durham

Quotes About Themselves #2848
#27. The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.

Deepak Chopra

Quotes About Themselves #2945
#28. At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God. But

Eric Metaxas

Quotes About Themselves #3043
#29. Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

Joseph Campbell

Quotes About Themselves #3167
#30. How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Quotes About Themselves #3168
#31. I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

Austin Stowell

Quotes About Themselves #3184
#32. Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

Thomas Jefferson

Quotes About Themselves #3189
#33. I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

Rose Schneiderman

Quotes About Themselves #3280
#34. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.

Koren Zailckas

Quotes About Themselves #3341
#35. [...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...]

Jose Saramago

Quotes About Themselves #3438
#36. The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Andre Malraux

Quotes About Themselves #3570
#37. It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.

Bryant McGill

Quotes About Themselves #3736
#38. I hate seeing fat girls on TV or in movies, because the only way the world seems to be okay with putting a fat person on camera is if they're miserable with themselves or if they're the jolly best friend. Well, I'm neither of those things.

Julie Murphy

Quotes About Themselves #3860
#39. A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Gerald R. Ford

Quotes About Themselves #4019
#40. It is said that most people judge themselves too harshly. I disagree. If they judged themselves harshly enough, they would come to the conclusion that they're the last person on Earth to be judging anyone.

Silvia Hartmann

Quotes About Themselves #4144
#41. To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh and make others laugh. To read more widely. To try to be more tolerant of my weaknesses and of others, and not to be so hard on myself all the time.

Chrissie Wellington

Quotes About Themselves #4147
#42. More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses
it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotes About Themselves #4304
#43. I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Quotes About Themselves #4399
#44. There always had to be a survivor. Maybe this simply spoke to the optimism of the men writing those screenplays; even with an uncomfortable sci fi plot they had to subconsciously comfort themselves by thinking that at least a hundred people would survive.
Someone has to survive

Chris Dietzel

Quotes About Themselves #4436
#45. Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

Del Shannon

Quotes About Themselves #4607
#46. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

John C. Maxwell

Quotes About Themselves #4637
#47. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!

Anne Frank

Quotes About Themselves #4643
#48. A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

Ari Marcopoulos

Quotes About Themselves #4675
#49. Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

Emily Yoffe

Quotes About Themselves #4871
#50. Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

R.D. Laing

Quotes About Themselves #4967
#51. As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.

Alan Price

Quotes About Themselves #5090
#52. I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours."
"It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who's used themselves wisely and who's wasted?

Tessa Hadley

Quotes About Themselves #5144
#53. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

Orson Scott Card

Quotes About Themselves #5193
#54. From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

Eric Burdon

Quotes About Themselves #5212
#55. Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves.

Rebecca McNutt

Quotes About Themselves #5349
#56. Your grandparents often found themselves in dark rooms, mapping out each other's bodies, claiming whole countries with their mouths.

Warsan Shire

Quotes About Themselves #5647
#57. Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

Charles Darwin

Quotes About Themselves #5753
#58. Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Dennis Potter

Quotes About Themselves #5791
#59. We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Albert Camus

Quotes About Themselves #5968
#60. Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

Jean De La Bruyere

Quotes About Themselves #6121
#61. The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

Iman

Quotes About Themselves #6361
#62. I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Quotes About Themselves #6456
#63. Motivated people are passionate! They love what they do and they are full of themselves (in the nicest possible way). Their enthusiasm and excitement are catching and they attract other people's interest and attention.

Lynda Field

Quotes About Themselves #6628
#64. If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

Quotes About Themselves #6827
#65. Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Quotes About Themselves #6893
#66. I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

James Jones

Quotes About Themselves #6987
#67. Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Epicurus

Quotes About Themselves #7279
#68. Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Bela Fleck

Quotes About Themselves #7297
#69. The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Quotes About Themselves #7343
#70. I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess with their ability to pull themselves together." "Is that so? Now you're the expert on ghost prevention?" "I guess so. It worked.

Rhonda Hughes

Quotes About Themselves #7370
#71. To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes About Themselves #7514
#72. I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.

Alexa Von Tobel

Quotes About Themselves #7921
#73. Excuses tell me two things about a person; they aren't honest with themselves, or others, and they believe I can't see they are lying to both of us - Tom too tall Cunningham

Tom Cunningham

Quotes About Themselves #7965
#74. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.

Abigail Strom

Quotes About Themselves #8061
#75. Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

Germaine Greer

Quotes About Themselves #8207
#76. But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right.

R.A. MacAvoy

Quotes About Themselves #8243
#77. Heroes can lose their way. Sometimes, heroes can go missing from even themselves. Have you ever had that feeling in your own life?

Mark Andrew Poe

Quotes About Themselves #8314
#78. Riotous madness,
To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,
Which break themselves in swearing!

William Shakespeare

Quotes About Themselves #8341
#79. People who kill time are themselves not alive.

Amit Abraham

Quotes About Themselves #8397
#80. The devils themselves declared Him to be the Son of God; will you mistrust Him?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Quotes About Themselves #8423
#81. So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs
only a price.

F. Sionil Jose

Quotes About Themselves #8640
#82. I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.

Robin Givhan

Quotes About Themselves #8705
#83. I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Charles A. Beard

Quotes About Themselves #8760
#84. Twitter seems just to be constant updates; it seems to me as promotional tool where people talk themselves up, and I don't want it to take over what I'm doing.

Tristan MacManus

Quotes About Themselves #8791
#85. My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

Jenny Offill

Quotes About Themselves #8871
#86. To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear

Marilynne Robinson

Quotes About Themselves #8892
#87. Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children ... [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future.

Sandra Meucci

Quotes About Themselves #8903
#88. In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Jose Marti

Quotes About Themselves #8976
#89. DO NOT put infants in a recovery position. They are not able to support themselves in this position. Instead, take the infant with you to call 9-1-1.

American National Red Cross

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#90. Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

Daniel H. Wilson

Quotes About Themselves #9057
#91. I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

Sally Quinn

Quotes About Themselves #9261
#92. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotes About Themselves #9277
#93. about the biology of stress and recovery, stress seems to have an effect on the brain similar to that of vaccines on the immune system. In limited doses, it causes brain cells to overcompensate and thus gird themselves against future demands. Neuroscientists call this phenomenon stress inoculation.

John J. Ratey

Quotes About Themselves #9309
#94. Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

Karl Lagerfeld

Quotes About Themselves #9450
#95. Aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

Ronald Reagan

Quotes About Themselves #9637
#96. When the Kiwis ran onto the field we could see the poor bastards were shitting themselves.

Wally Lewis

Quotes About Themselves #9649
#97. How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

Thomas Sowell

Quotes About Themselves #9953
#98. They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.'
As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was.

Paulo Coelho

Quotes About Themselves #10318
#99. There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Quotes About Themselves #10671
#100. This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.

John Piper

Quotes About Themselves #10698

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