Top 1200 Lies We Tell Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.

Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

So remember when you tell those little white lies that the night has a thousand eyes.

We do the impossible when we tell ourselves we can.

We are the stories we tell ourselves

We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories-about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters-as a way to hide from how small we are.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.

We're all the stories we tell ourselves.

I tell Donald Trump that the establishment will tell their lies. They will try to keep him down. I tell him, 'Now Mr. Trump, they're treating you like a black man.' I say, 'Mr. President, you know what it's like to be a black man. No matter what you say or do, you are guilty as hell.'

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

Can someone tell me, whatever we are doing, have we asked ourselves if our work has helped the poor or come to benefit the nation in any way? We should come out of the 'Why should I care' attitude and dedicate ourselves to the nation's progress.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.

The president can't tell you what we got. I'll tell you what the world got. The world has a burgeoning nuclear power that didn't, as the Soviets, say "we might defend ourselves in a war."

Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

No one who lies is linked to God. God is the truth. He says, 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life' (Jn. 14:6). See how we sort ourselves out and what position we take up through lying ? clearly on the side of the evil one. If, therefore, we want to be saved, we must with all our hearts love the Truth and guard ourselves from every kind of falsehood so that we may not be separated from truth and from life.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

We always make so many excuses for ourselves - 'I'm so busy, I'm so tired, I don't want to do it.' You know? 'I'm passionate about it, but I'm not going to be the person that changes things.' Why do we tell ourselves that? We totally could. There are so many people who are making so much change just because they're passionate.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well.

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.

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.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

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.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.