Top 1200 Pushing Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

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

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.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

We simply cannot call ourselves Christian and continue to judge one another - or ourselves - so harshly.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we don't know how to create, and the goals we want to achieve. It is by getting in touch with ALL the parts of ourselves - by having a gentle dialogue with all the "selves" we have inside - that we integrate them into a more comfortable, peaceful way of being with ourselves.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.

When we grow in spiritual consciousness, we identify with all that is in the world there is no exploitation. It is ourselves we're helping, ourselves we're healing.

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.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.

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

We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.

By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.