Short quotations about, ourselves - Page 4

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We judge ourselves by what we are c…

15 Feb , 2011  

We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , US poet (1807 – 1882)

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We lift ourselves by our thought, w…

15 Feb , 2011  

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere – your ideal of what you long to attain – the ideal […]

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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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