Top 495 Ourselves Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ourselves Quotes from famous people such as Agnes Repplier, Aja Naomi King, William Cowper, David Hume, Brene Brown, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
If you ask two people to remember a specific event, the stories are going to vary wildly because we always make ourselves out to be the hero.
Aja Naomi King
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.
Brene Brown
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Walter Savage Landor
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
We all hate on ourselves way too much, and there are so many people who think they have to look like those women on TV. That’s so unreasonable. Everybody is supposed to be a different size. And if I can just be confident in myself, then I’ll look better. It’s quantum physics!
Lisa Ann Walter
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo Buscaglia
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey
AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.
Mary Whitehouse
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Jean Guitton
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
Hermann Hesse
We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves – with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
When we’re rapping on these records, we’re either rapping about our past lives or things our people are going through right now in the struggle. It’s not necessarily what we’re going through ourselves.
Pimp C
Our job is to sell our clients’ merchandise… not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach
We’re all one thing, and we’re all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.
Andrew Garfield
The home is the center of life – a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.
Matthew Desmond
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
E. O. Wilson
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Alice Walker
We all have original ideas. Even if we don’t see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
Adam Grant
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can’t imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert Camus
We all have the same destiny. The difference is opening ourselves up to possibilities to joy, hope, and happiness along the way. Give yourself and others a chance to take advantage of what’s out there and available.
Diane Ladd
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
Bruce Lipton
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Saint Augustine
We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan – why? Because we need him; there’s something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
Mads Mikkelsen
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years,

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale
Africa wants the world to acknowledge that through fair partnerships with other members of the global community, we ourselves are capable of unprecedented growth.
Uzodinma Iweala
We take better care of our smartphones than we do of ourselves – the phones are always recharged!
Arianna Huffington
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
Robert Neelly Bellah
Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
John Lewis
It’s hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we’re writing for the most important people: the fans.
Josh Dun
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
When a politician uses the word ‘folks,’ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
Noam Chomsky
We do the impossible when we tell ourselves we can.
Chip Gaines
African-Americans don’t need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.
Byron Allen
I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We’re reminded of these real parts of ourselves.
Tracy K. Smith
We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.
Angelina Jolie
Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don’t have to explain ourselves for the most part.
Paul Graham
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.
Alice Walker
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
George Matthew Adams
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.
Michelle Obama
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
Often we’d secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn’t that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to – and all without hurting anybody.
Claude Rains
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
Sylvia Earle