Quotes about Ourselves

"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
-Sophocles

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
-Mark Twain

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds."
-Bob Marley

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
-Plato

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."
-Plato

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-Carl Jung

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
-Aristotle

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
-George Bernard Shaw

"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."
-Carl Sagan

"Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from 'justifying' ourselves."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."
-Oscar Wilde

"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."
-Oscar Wilde

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
-Oscar Wilde

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
-Sophocles

"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others."
-John F. Kennedy

"In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright."
-Oprah Winfrey

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
-Agnes Repplier

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners."
-Laurence Sterne

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie."
-William Shakespeare