Top 1200 Pushing Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often do we tell it to ourselves? And if we do, how often do we prove it? How often do we challenge ourselves to do something new?

We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.

The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Christ leads us to go out from ourselves more and more, to give ourselves and to serve others.

The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.

We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and it is easy to find ourselves aiming for the result rather than the cause. Let us aim for joy, rather than respectability. Let us make fools of ourselves from time to time, and thus see ourselves, for a moment, as the all-wise God sees us.

As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.

It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.

I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

There's a lot of pressure we put on ourselves because we want to do well for ourselves and obviously do well for your country.

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.

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.

We can be kind to others and kind to ourselves - and what anyone else decides to do is up to them. We can just be responsible to ourselves.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

Until we can all present ourselves to the world in our completeness, as fully and beautifully as we see ourselves naked in our bedrooms, we are not free.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

We have given ourselves the means of our ambitions, and in football, when we give ourselves the means, it is always less difficult.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?

The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

There's a basic feeling of lack that we want to distract ourselves from. We want to fix it by looking outside ourselves, as if it is going to fill us up.

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves

I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.

Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-­workers, to the images in a magazine. How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.