Short quotations about, ourselves - Page 4

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We love in others what we lack ours…

15 Feb , 2011  

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles A. Stoddard ,

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Rosalind Sussman Yalow

We must believe in ourselves or no …

15 Feb , 2011  

We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed. Great short quote and quotation by: Rosalind Sussman Yalow ,

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We should conduct ourselves not as …

15 Feb , 2011  

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

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We simply rob ourselves when we mak…

15 Feb , 2011  

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. Great short quote and quotation by: Publilius Syrus , (~100 BC)

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James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

We spend most of our time and energ…

15 Feb , 2011  

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. Great short […]

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Shana Alexander

We strain to renew our capacity for…

15 Feb , 2011  

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. Great short quote and quotation by: Shana Alexander ,

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John F. Kennedy

We stand for freedom. That is our c…

15 Feb , 2011  

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. Great short quote and quotation by: John F. Kennedy , US Democratic politician (1917 – 1963)

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We two are to ourselves a crowd….

15 Feb , 2011  

We two are to ourselves a crowd. Great short quote and quotation by: Ovid , Roman poet (43 BC – 17 AD)

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What can we see, read, acquire, but…

15 Feb , 2011  

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. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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Paul Valery

What others think of us would be of…

15 Feb , 2011  

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Paul Valery , French critic & poet (1871 – 1945)

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Albert Pike

What we have done for ourselves alo…

15 Feb , 2011  

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Pike ,

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