Top 1200 Pushing Ourselves Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

'The Sound Of Silence' taught us that we shouldn't be afraid of pushing the boundaries.

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.

What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption.

I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

And that's what everyone at Apple is focused on - pushing forward and creating the future.

The boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality.

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.

You cannot get bogged down by failure - you have to keep pushing.

Sometimes you can win by persevering, pushing and pressuring your competition.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

I believe in pushing my records until the wheels fall off.

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

I've always been a stroller guy. I love pushing them.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

As long as I feel I'm pushing myself and my riding, then I'm where I want to be.

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

The only way you find what your limits are is by pushing them.

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

Confidence is vital to pushing creativity and creating a point of difference.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

We can all be ourselves, be true to ourselves, and all be together.

We're taught as a society what is acceptable for women to look like and what's not. And where fat should be and shouldn't. And I think it's important to sometimes reprogram ourselves and recondition ourselves to not have so much negativity toward our own bodies.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

By being receptive, we can avail ourselves of the spiritual wealth available to us. By being open, we can receive things beyond what we ourselves might imagine.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ. Whatever God works in us by his grace, he commands us to do as our duty. God works all in us and by us.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough

In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone.

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

I want to keep pushing the limits for drummers and expressing myself.

Yoga is living as awareness itself - with nothing pulling or pushing you.

Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul. We cannot do very much for anyone else until we have first done something for ourselves. That is, it is pretty difficult to give someone else an education unless we have some education ourselves. It is pretty hard to get someone else to think unless we ourselves are thinkers.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.