Top 100 To Ourselves Quotes
#1. To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
Amelia Barr
#2. When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal
#3. Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.
Jack Kirby
#4. Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#6. We must be true to ourselves. And we must be true to others, whether they believe we are or not.
John McCain
#7. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy Bennett
#8. Have we not done enough by our duty, Shireen? Do we not also have a duty to ourselves?
Amitav Ghosh
#9. We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them
Dan Chaon
#10. It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.
Marty Rubin
#11. More often than not, this backfires, and our attempts to be different result in uniformity, our attempts to be plain draw attention to ourselves, our attempts to temper sexuality inadvertently exploit it, and our attempts to avoid offense accidentally create it.
Rachel Held Evans
#12. The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving
#13. No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
Josef Pieper
#15. The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#16. Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.
Sarah Dessen
#17. All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we're talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
Adyashanti
#18. 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
#20. Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.
Janet Jackson
#21. Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.
Ally Carter
#22. Hope is the moonlight filtering through the trees,
Hope is the silent prayer that we make in distress,
Hope is the promise that we make to ourselves,
Hope is the happiness that we visualize,
Hope is the horizon that we reach, if we try!
Balroop Singh
#23. The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.
Geoff Johns
#24. Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.
Michel De Montaigne
#25. It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
Simone Weil
#26. We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Wangari Maathai
#27. We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.
James Franco
#28. Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.
Mary Robinson
#29. Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
Fred Rogers
#30. Overmedication: We're killing ourselves. Degrading
often unseen & often unfelt
our kidneys, livers, vital organs. Until it's too late. And we croak. Kidney failure, heart failure, liver failure. We do it to ourselves
David R. Wommack
#31. We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
Patrick Ness
#32. 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
#33. We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
Orson Scott Card
#34. We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.
Dorothy Rowe
#35. I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do ... And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.
Linda Olsson
#36. It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.
Suze Orman
#37. Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
D.T. Suzuki
#38. To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to ourselves; the angels vote.
Victor Hugo
#39. Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in ourselves we are bound to be mistaken, for of us holds good to all eternity the motto, "Each one is the farthest away from himself" - as far as ourselves are concerned we are not "knowers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. 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
#42. If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."
Bill Gates
#43. We didn't speak our truest thoughts, and paraphrased our souls until we didn't know our feelings, and so were strangers to ourselves.
Adam Novy
#44. In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold
#45. Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.
Watchman Nee
#46. The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
Carla H. Krueger
#47. Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#48. Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.
Diana Trilling
#49. We are all rich in mind, we just have to exert a little more pressure to ourselves in order to expose our wealthiness to the outside world
Mojela Malelu
#51. It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
Sheri Fink
#52. Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
Tom Hardy
#53. We two are to ourselves a crowd.
Ovid
#54. We learn that the more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.
Brendon Burchard
#55. Will we submit ourselves to Scripture, or will we submit Scripture to ourselves?
Anonymous
#56. What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.
Emily Browning
#57. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.
Mark Epstein
#58. We can speak, think, refer to ourselves as agents, and so build up the false idea of a persisting self that has consciousness and free will.
John Brockman
#59. I center down - I retreat, not inside myself, but outside myself. ... Self-forgetfulness is tremendously invigorating. I wonder if we don't waste most of our energy just by spending every waking minute saying hello to ourselves.
Annie Dillard
#60. [About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.
I.L. Peretz
#61. The final section of the book returns to ourselves and asks how it is possible to think about our existence in the light of the strange world described by physics. The
Carlo Rovelli
#62. There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.
Piero Ferrucci
#63. The pervasion of image has so deeply altered our very relationships to ourselves that even men have become objects
if never erotic objects.
Shulamith Firestone
#64. The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.
Reese Witherspoon
#65. Sometimes we do that to ourselves
we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.
Julia Serano
#66. What is Love? perhaps we may find that love is the ability of someone to give us back to us. Maybe love is someone seeing and remembering, handing us back to ourselves just a trifle better than we had dared to hope or dream...
Ray Bradbury
#67. To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to bring others to him: Indeed, we cannot keep the joy of the faith to ourselves; we must pass it on.
Pope Benedict XVI
#69. The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
George Eliot
#70. We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
#71. There is indescribable joy, deep satisfaction and an eternal purpose in dying to ourselves and living for Christ.
David Platt
#72. We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.
Thomas Merton
#73. To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
#74. If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
Timothy Keller
#75. When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
Patricia Sun
#76. I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves.
Colum McCann
#77. If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves.
Chris Matakas
#78. Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves ... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
Harold Bloom
#79. Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.
Eugene O'Neill
#80. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#81. Oh, how proper we seem to ourselves when we have no reason to be improper! It takes being in love to know something about yourself. Sometimes, with you, I feel like the slut of the world, the eager, faithful slut of the world. Does that seem proper to you?
John Edward Williams
#82. What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort
Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.
Mark Strand
#83. Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.
Epictetus
#85. Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon ...
Brandon Sanderson
#86. No matter how much we lie to ourselves about what a good person we are inside, sooner or later, we are all someone else's nightmare. Let us hope, for all our sakes, that history judges us with far kinder labels than what we've used to judge each other.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.
Jonathan Haidt
#88. Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
Pliny The Elder
#89. One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy
Sue Thoele
#90. From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
Steven Rattner
#91. We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.
Brad Pitt
#92. Sometimes the stupidest promises are the ones we make to ourselves. But
Addison Moore
#93. How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.
Julia Alvarez
#94. who knows what we want? We're all mysteries, even to ourselves.
Gregory Maguire
#95. This disconnection of being and doing represents a misalignment of our souls that clouds our presence to ourselves and others.
David G. Benner
#96. There are many ways in which the god can make us lonely and lead us to ourselves.
Hermann Hesse
#97. We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#98. It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#100. When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
Sharon Salzberg
