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" Quotes and Sayings About ourselves

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Because Courage Denial Face
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It's the pressure we put on ourselves that push us to greatness.
Greatness Pressure Push us Ourselves
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Times come when we have to squeeze ourselves a bit to do the precious things that we need in life.

Times Squeeze Precious Things
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Education is the software of any society. It is what programs us to see the world the way we do and conduct ourselves the way we do.

Way Conduct World Programs
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The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock someone down to feel tall.

Better Feel Ourselves Knock
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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Lose Read Transformed World
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Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

Progress Perfection Asking Ourselves
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When we don't ask for what we want and need, we discount ourselves.

Ask Want Need Discount
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Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

Fear Better Great Know
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”

Bear Duty British Empire
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happy Depend Upon
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Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Conduct That Fear Wish
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There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Real Arrive Life Time
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We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Community Progress Forget Achievement
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

Comfortable Complete Situation Trouble
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A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and we do not wish to trouble ourselves in examining the crime.

Evil Effect Guilty Crime
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Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

Worth Happen Draw Believe
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If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. We need not wait to see what others do.

Nature Change Attitude Towards
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman...dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

Woman Dreaming Unexploited Secret
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

Love Image Perfect Potential
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love True Destiny Find
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

About Conventional Freeing Ourselves
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Girls, learn to take care of yourselves. Some men will use you, use your body, ruin your reputation and then marry a beautiful woman and get born again. And as if that is not enough, use you as testimony in church.

Testimony Church Enough Again
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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Saves But May One
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If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

Cheat Around Another Something
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We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.

Mind Perfect Exercise Sabilize
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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Image Manner Act Believe
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

Mind None Mental Free
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We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself.

Hurt Learn Lesson Damage
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Free Either Least Know
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Project Attitude Feeling Assume
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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

Gospel Save Sufficient Declare
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Sorrow Fear Life Approach
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If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Judge Reach False Aspiration
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves.

Compel Create Subtitute External
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Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember

Allow Upset Small Life. Should
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“Being a healthy woman isn’t about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters – on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.”

Matters Feel Ourselves Focusing
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“As women, we must stand up for ourselves. As women, we must stand up for each other. As women, we must stand up for justice for all.”

Stand Women Justice Up
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“Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.”

Education Country Build Boundless
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“We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.”

Need Putting Ourselves Higher
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I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

Realise Believe Wide High
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I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Because Defend Elected Except
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It is our responsibility to continue to add value whenever we find ourselves in a privileged position.

Position Value Continue Find
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Ready Believe Ourselves Wish
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Advice Wounds Rather Tender
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When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

Cling Defend Freely Shared
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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Production-Oriented Occupation Identifying Endanger
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Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Efforts Disconnet Suffering Hurt
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Characters Endured Hell Hereafter
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